Ahoy and Salve:<br/><br/>I thought you would enjoy the following poem by Catullus, who wrote it while serving in the Legions around the time that your story takes place.  Not only is it invigorating in a vulgar way, it gives you a sense that manners of speech were not all that different from today:<br/><br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16#Latin_text_and_translation<br/><br/>