I'm not really sure -- wasn't it the language of diplomacy and government?
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, Latin wasn't spoken outside Church and
> University contexts; it was read and written of
> course. So it wasn't dead the way, I dunno, Sanskrit
> is now dead. But it wasn't a living vernacular
> either.
>
Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.