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To: ex-Texan
O tempora, O mores!

Latin??? Why not Greek?

Salve!

8 posted on 09/21/2002 12:41:01 PM PDT by meowmeow
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To: meowmeow
Pilate, the Roman administrators, the Roman army would speak Latin to one another. I think the normal belief is that the spoken language of the Jews at the time was Aramaic.

But I'd be very surprised if Greek was not the language used to communicate between Jews and Romans.

19 posted on 09/21/2002 1:18:03 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: meowmeow
Latin was spoken by the Romans and Aramaic was spoken by Jesus and the local Jews.
21 posted on 09/21/2002 1:38:20 PM PDT by Kermit
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