Dear Peter,
Are you sure? As I understood it, in the first century CE even in ROME
the lingua franca was Greek, not Latin, and that Latin was dying out
until it was revived under the Flavians. (That explains why Paul wrote
his letter to the Romans in Greek.) I suppose that Latin was used by the
Romans for official administrative purposes, but that Romans in
Palestine would have spoken mostly Greek among one another, The language
spoken in the army may have varied from regiment to regiment, and some
of the regiment names are recorded, e.g. in Acts 10:1, Cornelius was
from the Italian regiment, and so is more likely to have been a Latin
speaker - although he probably conversed with Peter in Greek.
HH: I did not know that, but there seem to be other opinions. ...
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