• mrmule
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    176 months ago

    In Egypt they would say the 8th year of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator

      • ✺roguetrick✺
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        6 months ago

        59 BC is actually pretty close to coptic I’d bet for spoken language (though officially it wouldn’t be called coptic with consistent Greek script until the third century). At least in the sense that vulgar Latin was close to Italian.