Re: Classic, Normal, and Vulgar Lingo

At 18:03 +0100 22.1.2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>I don't know it.  The closest I can think of is Horace:
>docte sermones utriusque linguae   [Carmina 3, 8, 5]
>
>'thou who has learnt the modes of speaking of both languages'
>('docte' is vocative)
Yes, that's it.  It is in my second year Latin textbook! :-)

>
>The two languages are Latin & Greek.
Of course!  The point was that bilingualism was part of a good education,
as it is now in the non-Anglophone parts of the western world! ;-)

>
>But I assume the "Rhomaika katholika" was the artificially Atticizing Greek
>of the Byzantine Empire which differed a fair bit from the spoken Greek of
>the ordinary people.  Blue blood does not ensure that one will not speak
>the vernacular  :)
>
Indeed.  Especially not if you are from Thema Armeniakon, as the Doukas
family was.  Basil II was also accused of speaking "Pöbelsprache", while
his brother John was "gut geschult".  But then we all know that Basil had


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