re: #266 Walter L. Newton

You could not have gone through a days worth of business without a passing command of Greek. Most of the Roman artisans were Greek, and in some of the colonies, Greek was the primary tongue.

Me thinks you are not as old as you want us to believe :)

Not necessarily - as I recall, Cato the Elder expelled a crap-load of Greeks from Rome; viewed them as a pernicious influence.