# Soldier's accuracy *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 16 Sep 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *16 Sep 1997, 23:50* An answer to Rostrum's classicist friend (for sake of argument) is that we don't know what language Latro is writing in. If you accept the fact that he can read and write at all, he could be doing so in any local dialect. All we know is that his name is Lucius---perhaps that name is not acceptable for the period, but perhaps that it could be an acceptable "translation" from period dialect. You know, if he goes on with it, I hope Wolfe does stay within a modicum of discipline. I don't want Latro sailing off to the New World to smoke the Pipe of Peace with Cutthroat's pals. I'd much rather he stayed within the incredibly rich Mediterranean world and had some more interaction with historical figures. -alga- --- ### Michael Straight *17 Sep 1997, 10:40 · follows Alice Turner* > On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Alice Turner wrote: > An answer to Rostrum's classicist friend (for sake of argument) is that we > don't know what language Latro is writing in. If you accept the fact that > he can read and write at all, he could be doing so in any local dialect. > All we know is that his name is Lucius---perhaps that name is not > acceptable for the period, but perhaps that it could be an acceptable > "translation" from period dialect. Doesn't the introduction to Soldier of the Mist say that the books are translated from scrolls found in an urn that were written in Latin except using Greek letters? I wonder if Wolfe wrote the ending of Soldier of Arete after deciding no more Soldier books were wanted, or if he had an idea in mind for "discovering" more of Latro's journals. -Rostrum ---