Capitolo 17
civilization and of the Latin language Latin it gave the victory. Till now as
this factor will be considered, I should prefer to say that it
the superiority of the Latin was not so a lot of, even if that can freely be
it recognized, as it was the sentimental respect that the Germans and them
leaders had for the empire and for all of his/her institutions. This has shown
clearly enough, for example, in the pride that the Visigothic one and
Frank kings showed in the tender ones their errands from Rome, long later
Rome had lost the power to strengthen his/her applications on them; you/he/she has shown in
their use of the Latin as the language of the court and the official world.
Under the influence of this feeling you regulate Germanic and their peopleses
imitated the Romans, and, among the other things, taken on their language.
The church probably practiced the considerable influence in this direction. Many
of the Germans you/he/she had been converted to the Christianity before they entered the
Empire, and you/he/she had felt Latin used in the services of church and in the hymns.
Among cultivated people of different countries, it was the only mean of
communication, and it was approved as the frank language of the political one and
I husk ecclesiastical, and the traditional mean of expression for
literary and legal purposes.
However, an element in the situation should be given perhaps more weight
what any fact as soon as you/he/she has mentioned. Very some barbarians had been
permission to establish in a more peaceful way in Roman territory,
this way that a great part of the western world entered their possession from
way of gradual occupation rather than from conquest. [15] They became a farmer
owners, workers of manual and soldiers in the Roman army. Perhaps,
their occupation of central and southern Europe bears of it therefore,
similarity to the peaceful invasion of this country from immigrants from
Europe, and they has been able to adopt Latin in the moment in which the German or Scandinavian