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Episode CVIII - A Lesson in Latin II

Emperors of Rome

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What's the Difference Between Late Latin and Classical Latin?

Late latin is more complex in its forms. The v letter, when it's a consonant, becomes what we think of as va. In the mediaeval period, church latin becomes er a kind of simplified form. We have evidence of this happening from a fairly early period,. even in the first century c n e - there's a document by someone called 'u' that people still find hard to pronounce. There are two levels here. If you could resurrect cicero and your a in a third or fourth century roman, ye, it might not be totally easy to speak to cicero. But reading ro because that text is preserved, and very early on,

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