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I heard today that slaves in Ancient Rome wouldn't be able to understand their Master's private conversation as the latter would be speaking in Greek. Do we have any accounts of how slaves experienced this? Or maybe in later times when Latin/French where the upper class languages?

by /u/NFB42 in /r/AskHistorians

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