<strong>Autolycus’ languages</strong><br/><br/><strong>Koine Greek (the Greek used throughout the Roman Empire):</strong>Native language, fluent plus reading and writing.<br/><strong>Classical Greek dialects (Doric, Attic, Ionic, Aeolic, Achaean, Northwest Doric):</strong>Good (Ionic) to reasonable (everything else) knowledge, reading only, from studying medicine.<br/><strong>Latin Vulgate:</strong>Fluent, learned from the oppressor and from being a Roman slave since age 12 or so. Can read it, not great at writing it. Autolycus prefers to write in Greek, the Roman alphabet still feels strange after all these years.<br/><strong>Classical Latin:</strong>Reading only, from studying medicine.<br/><strong>Barbaric languages (Britton, Gaulish, Germanic, etc.):</strong>Very limited, can more or less tell what region someone is from and knows maybe a word or two, from dealing with other slaves. He doesn’t try very hard to learn these, there seem to be an awful lot of dialects and anyway, they all learn Latin sooner or later.<br/><strong>North-African languages (Egyptian, Punic, Phoenician):</strong>Limited, from his time in the military.