"Versions of this article were presented as papers to the Classics Department at Dalhousie University and to the CACW in 2004."The language of oracular inquiries in Roman Egypt changed from Demotic to Greek because of the insistence of the Roman authorities, not, as historians have previously supposed, because of a preference for Greek on the part of priests or inquirers.https://www.jstor.org/stable/2030461
