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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3447426, member: 75937&quot;]As long as we&#039;re talking about Bible movies, one thing that irks me is when Romans are depicted speaking Latin in Greek-speaking countries. Latin was used in Italy, Gaul, Britannia, Hispania, Dacia and Africa. Everywhere else consisted of the former empire of Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Ptolemies, and had been Greek-speaking for centuries. Every Christian text was written in Greek.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this movie, for example, Pilate speaks to Jesus in Latin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]915366[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>He would have used Greek to communicate with the Greek-speaking locals. After all, what language is on these coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]915368[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]915369[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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