> How do you know that? Either "Caesar" or "Cæsar" is good Latin.
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Hart's Rules: ...
The Chicago Manual of Style:...
Hart's and Chicago both correctly specify current British and American classicist conventions for setting Latin text. There was a very long period, however, during which Latin was typically set using the � and � diphthongs, and it is still common to see them used in fairly recent missals and other ecclesiastical Latin texts. The contemporary classicist convention is based on the reasonable observation that the ancient Romans did not use the specialised diphthong forms, ergo nor should we. The same people consider Latin a dead language, suitable only for study of ancient documents, which is clearly not the view taken at the Vatican, which continues to produce new documents in that language. In recent encyclicals, however, at least as published at www.vatican.va, the � and � are not used.
John Hudson
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