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Re: Punic-era Latin?

• From: "habarakhe4" <theophilus88@hidden.email>
• Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 03:05:09 -0000
• Subject: Re: Punic-era Latin?
• To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com

--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "rodlox" <Babnol@h...> wrote:
> 
>  did Scipio Africanus use Classical Latin or another type?
> 
>  thanks.

Cornelius Scipio Africanus was as upper class as they come; but he 
lived early enough that he would have spoken the pre-Classical 
Gracchan Latin (the Gracchi's mother was a Cornelia) that produced 
Sardinian Romance.

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