<P> The emperor Claudius tried to limit the use of Greek, and on occasion revoked the citizenship of those who lacked Latin . Even in addressing the Roman Senate, however, he drew on his own bilingualism in communicating with Greek - speaking ambassadors . Suetonius quotes him as referring to "our two languages," and the employment of two imperial secretaries, one for Greek and one Latin, dates to his reign . </P> <P> The everyday interpenetration of the two languages is indicated by bilingual inscriptions, which sometimes even switch back and forth between Greek and Latin . The epitaph of a Greek - speaking soldier, for instance, might be written primarily in Greek, with his rank and unit in the Roman army expressed in Latin . </P> <P> In the Eastern empire, laws and official documents were regularly translated into Greek from Latin . Both languages were in active use by government officials and the Church during the 5th century . From the 6th century, Greek culture was studied in the West almost exclusively through Latin translation . Latin loanwords appear liberally in Greek texts on technical topics from late antiquity and the Byzantine period . </P> <P> Atticism was a trend of the Second Sophistic . Intellectuals such as Aelius Aristides sought to restore the standards of classical Greek characteristic of the Attic dialect, represented by Thucydides, Plato, Demosthenes, and other authors from the Classical period . Prose stylists who aspired to Atticism tried to avoid the vulgarisms of koine--an impractical goal, but this linguistic purism reflected also the 2nd - century flourishing of grammarians and lexicographers . Expertise in language and literature contributed to preserving Hellenic culture in the Roman Imperial world . </P>

The eastern empire adopted which language in replacement of latin