[Destro]

That would also be wrong. Romans of that time tended to write and speak to each other Greek and resorted to Latin in only extreme official cases.

Greek was spoken among the Roman elite the way French was the language of the European aristocrats from England to Moscow a few centuries ago.

In the Western part of the Roman Empire at this time Latin was spoken more because the local populations were never part of the Hellenistic world and being poorer than the Greek east-the least educated lower Roman classes were sent who were not as well educated in Greek (their famalies could not afford to own or hire Greek educators).

[metesky]

Will Durant wrote that the worst mistake that the Romans ever made was hiring Greek educators who purposely erroded the morals of the Romans and made subsequent generations effeminate, leading to Western Rome's long slow slide into decay while the Byzantine Greeks in the Eastern empire held sway for another 6/7 hundred years.