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Episode 18: Keeping Time With The Romans

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The Name of the God Jupiter

The modern english pronunciation of julius caesar is quite different from the way the name would have been pronounced in latin during the time of caesar. So there's some speculation that the similarity of the names caused the confusion, and that's why the caesarian has generally been attributed to the more famous caesar. In gaul now, many parts of the roman empire had a local latin dialect which are sometimes called vulgar latin dialects because they were the dialects of the common people of that region. And in gaul, the latin dialect developed several new sounds. These changes were part of the transition from late latin into aver early form of french called

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