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In "The passion of the Christ", the Roman soldiers speak latin. Is this historically accurate? What kind of soldiers were statione in Jerusalem, legionaires or auxilliaries and what was their ethnicity/language?

by /u/schneeleopard8 in /r/AskHistorians

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