Editing Latin (section)

=== Classical Latin ===
{{Main|Classical Latin}}
During the late republic and into the first years of the empire, from about 75 BC to AD 200, a new [[Classical Latin]] arose, a conscious creation of the orators, poets, historians and other [[literate]] men, who wrote the great works of [[classical literature]], which were taught in [[grammar]] and [[rhetoric]] schools. Today's instructional grammars trace their roots to such [[Roman school|schools]], which served as a sort of informal language academy dedicated to maintaining and perpetuating educated speech.<ref>{{cite book |page=3 |title=From Latin to modern French with especial consideration of Anglo-Norman; phonology and morphology |first=Mildred K |last=Pope |author-link=Mildred Pope |location=Manchester |publisher=Manchester university press |series=Publications of the University of Manchester, no. 229. French series, no. 6 |year=1966}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Source book of the history of education for the Greek and Roman period |first=Paul |last=Monroe |location=London, New York |publisher=[[Macmillan & Co.]] |year=1902 |pages=346–352}}</ref>