Dr. F posted these earlier:

1)LANGUAGE.
How do we recover the way the real Latin speakers talked at home or in the Popina and how do we suggets this in the transaltions we write (and do the one's we read do the job well; Please talk about translations you particularly admired.


2)LIFE and HABITS.
How do we compensate for the neglect by ancient texts and traditional academic scholarship of ordinary folk, not only in Rome but in Italy and the western provinces during the 300 years of empire before it went East with Constantine? What would you most like to know about their lives? What kind of evidence would help us find out?


I had to search for five minutes to find her post that included this request. For the sake of convenience, I'm reposting it. See you all in chat.