19/47 It merely asserts the progress of Latin studies among the higher orders. 314.) Probably it was a kind of court language, and that of public affairs and prevailed in the Roman colonies .-- M.] [Footnote 39: The Celtic was preserved in the mountains of Wales, Cornwall, and Armorica. We may observe, that Apuleius reproaches an African youth, who lived among the populace, with the use of the Punic; whilst he had almost forgot Greek, and neither could nor would speak Latin, (Apolog.p. |