movie question

elduce · July 9, 2006, 2:01am

Salvete omnes discipuli discipulaeque:
I was watching a part of The Passion of the Christ. In one scene, duo Romani milites were whipping the hell out of Jesus, and an onlooker counted out the lashes. I tuned my ears into his counting and noticed at number 28 he did not say ‘duodetriginta’ but ‘viginti octo,’ which I thought was wrong. Did the Romans count like that or was it just sloppy Latin?

Gratias ago,
El

Amadeus · July 9, 2006, 4:19pm

Salve elduce,

I was wondering that myself. Hope someone has an answer.

modus.irrealis · July 9, 2006, 4:40pm

Hi,

I took a look at the Vulgate and viginti octo is used there, in Nehemiah for example it’s used a bunch of times, 7:13, 7:22, etc. So maybe they reasoned that viginti octo was the popular everyday form and therefore a simple soldier would probably use it , but I wouldn’t be too surprised if it was just something they overlooked .

Thymios

edonnelly · July 9, 2006, 9:22pm

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