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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8643630, member: 128351&quot;]Actually it&#039;s not <i>Fost(u)lus</i> but <i>Fostlus</i>. The magistrate&#039;s name was Sextus Pompeius Fostlus. <i>Fostlus </i>was a popular phonetic spelling for the classical <i>Faustulus</i>. Same for Publius Clodius Pulcher, the plebeian tribune : in order to sound more plebeian, he changed the spelling of his aristocratic name Claudius Pulcher.</p><p><br /></p><p>Orwell wrote that the very language is politic. In 20th c. Greece, leftist newspapers were written in <i>demotiki</i>, a popular dialect of modern Greek, while conservative papers were written in <i>aristotiki</i>, a more elegant language close to ancient Greek. In late Republican Rome it was the same : politicians of the popular party wrote their name in basic phonetic Latin, while their opponents of the optimates party used the classical spelling.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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