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The common language was Greek, even though the Romans were in charge.
Greek spread through the conquests of Alexander the Great, and Latin never supplanted it.
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Yup, the entire eastern half of the Roman Empire used Greek as a lingua franca.
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rather, as an actual and official first Lingua
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Greek spread through the conquests of Alexander the Great, and Latin never supplanted it.