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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Quite defensible:
Greek and latin were the language of the cultured long past the point where Rome mattered.
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I am not trying to be contrarian, I really am no
. But Greek as a language spoken, or even read had essentially vanished from Western Europe by the time the Roman Empire had fallen. It actually made a comeback.
As for Latin, well, Rome never really did cease to matter. Yes, the Roman empire fell, but because the Catholic Church, Rome remained in large measure a focal point of Western Europe until at least the Protestant Reformation.
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Bill