# Latin scholars:  How legit is the dialog in the Starz series Spartacus

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 21, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-scholars-how-legit-is-the-dialog-in-the-starz-series-spartacus/656275 "2013-04-21T00:58:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-scholars-how-legit-is-the-dialog-in-the-starz-series-spartacus/656275/1 "2013-04-21T00:58:51Z")

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I’m not especially wild about the show, but I love the dialog for some reason and although I have a passing familiarity with the language, it’s only at the 1st to second year level.

What I specifically am referring to is the sentence construction or what I guess would be considered syntax (although I’m sure there’s a more specific term for it). For example, ‘I barely know the man absent furrowed brow.’

It’s such a simple but I think artful construction. However how true to the common parlance is quite another issue.

If this belongs in Cafe Society, please move. I couldn’t decide but since it seemed mainly a factual issue, I settled on GQ.