※ 引述《PrinceBamboo (竹筍王子)》之銘言： : 例如漢族說漢語 契丹人說契丹語(天龍八部XD) 希臘人講希臘語...等等 : 但是提到古羅馬人時 卻不將他們使用的語言稱為羅馬語 而是拉丁語 : 這兩個字最初的意思 應該是拉提姆平原和羅馬城 都是地名 : 後來發展出羅馬文明 建立羅馬共和和羅馬帝國 自稱羅馬人 : 但唯有他們創造並使用並影響歐洲深遠的語言和文字不以羅馬為名 : 而叫拉丁語和拉丁文 進而有後來的拉丁語系 但他們的數字卻又叫羅馬數字 Wikipedia上面的說明，或許可以解答你的疑惑。 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) 簡單講，羅馬只是拉丁人建立的諸多城邦中的一個。拉丁人及拉丁語這兩個名詞的出現， 應該是比羅馬的興起還要早。 -- 個人自由是社會的承諾。自由是指個人有能力去做他認為有價值的事。 自由不僅是發展的主要目的，也是發展的主要手段。 一個人的「能力」指的是各種可以成就的功能的組合。 能力是一種自由，亦即成就各種功能組合的實質自由，或以比較不正式的說法， 指達成各種生活形態的自由。 Quoted from Amartya Sen, DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM --

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