※ 引述《PrinceBamboo (竹笋王子)》之铭言： : 例如汉族说汉语 契丹人说契丹语(天龙八部XD) 希腊人讲希腊语...等等 : 但是提到古罗马人时 却不将他们使用的语言称为罗马语 而是拉丁语 : 这两个字最初的意思 应该是拉提姆平原和罗马城 都是地名 : 後来发展出罗马文明 建立罗马共和和罗马帝国 自称罗马人 : 但唯有他们创造并使用并影响欧洲深远的语言和文字不以罗马为名 : 而叫拉丁语和拉丁文 进而有後来的拉丁语系 但他们的数字却又叫罗马数字 Wikipedia上面的说明，或许可以解答你的疑惑。 Latin is a member of the Italic languages and its alphabet is based on the Old Italic alphabet, derived from the Greek alphabet. In the 9th or 8th century BC Latin was brought to the Italian peninsula by the migrating Latins who settled in Latium, around the River Tiber, where Roman civilization would develop. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin) The Latins were an ancient Italic people who migrated to the Latium region in central Italy, (Latium Vetus - Old Latium), in the 2nd millennium B.C., from Central Europe (Urnfield Culture). Although they lived in independent city-states, the Latins had a common language (Latin), common religious beliefs and a close sense of kinship, expressed in the myth that they were all descendants of Latinus, the father-in-law of Aeneas. Latinus was worshipped as Jupiter Latiaris on Mons Albanus (Monte Cavo) during an annual festival that was attended by all Latins, including Rome, one of the Latin states. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latins) 简单讲，罗马只是拉丁人建立的诸多城邦中的一个。拉丁人及拉丁语这两个名词的出现， 应该是比罗马的兴起还要早。 -- 个人自由是社会的承诺。自由是指个人有能力去做他认为有价值的事。 自由不仅是发展的主要目的，也是发展的主要手段。 一个人的「能力」指的是各种可以成就的功能的组合。 能力是一种自由，亦即成就各种功能组合的实质自由，或以比较不正式的说法， 指达成各种生活形态的自由。 Quoted from Amartya Sen, DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM --

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