QUOTE: At first, it was simply a local dialect surrounded by other languages (often very closely related ones, Italic ones), and then progressively spread throughout Italy and later through Europe as the Romans conquered those territories by fire and sword.END QUOTE.
This is nit picking now & has no benefit to the guide but at end of this paragraph you mention conquest via "fire & sword" where many times 'Roman Genius' & diplomacy was favoured & implemented over 'fire & sword'. I was wondering if diplomacy could also be added to that sentence, just to give beginner another angle in context.
Doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of learning Latin, but while little issues are being addressed, I thought I'd say now.
This is nit picking now & has no benefit to the guide but at end of this paragraph you mention conquest via "fire & sword" where many times 'Roman Genius' & diplomacy was favoured & implemented over 'fire & sword'. I was wondering if diplomacy could also be added to that sentence, just to give beginner another angle in context.
Doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of learning Latin, but while little issues are being addressed, I thought I'd say now.