Capitolo 10
All the actions were continued in Latin. It was the language of
the governor, the small officer and the tax-gatherer. You used in
laws and proclamations, and any native could inhale to a place in the civilian
service unless he had dominated him. You/he/she was sometimes concerned at least as a
Non_ of here of _sine of the Roman citizen and very-desired. The emperor
Claudius, annulled for example the Roman citizen of a Greek,
because he had addressed a letter to him in Latin that he was not able
understands. The tradition that Latin it was the official language of the
world was taken above from the Christian church. Also when Constantine presided
on the Board to Nicaea in the east, he addressed the reunion in Latin.
The two last-mentioned agencies, the Latin of the Roman officer and the
Latin of the church, it was the influences that the language did spoken
in the whole empire essentially uniform in his/her character. It had the Latin
what the farmer, the dealer, and the soldier they brought through Italy
and in the provinces been permitted to develop in the different place
without some influence that unifies external, new dialects would probably have,
grown all over the world, or, to put him/it in another way, probably the
Romantic languages would have entered first in existence many centuries
indeed they appeared. That to unify the influence was the Latin used by the
officers sent from Rome that all the classes eagerly strove him to imitate.
Naturally the language of the provinces didn't adapt in all the respects to
the Roman standard. Apuleius, is for example aware of the fact that his
It is probable that African style and the diction offend its Roman readers, and in
the introduction to his/her _Metamorphoses_ he implores for their indulgence. The
Older Seneca in his/her comments of _Controversiae_ of a Spanish individual-farmer
"what he could never unlearn that notorious style that is abrupt and
rustic and characteristic of Spain", and Spartianus in his/her Life of Hadrian
it tells us that when Hadrian addressed the senate on a certain occasion, his