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byzantine greek

n. Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during the time of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20Empire ((A.D.) 330–1453), preceded by Koine Greek and succeeded by Modern Greek. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639-3 code: gkm.)

Usage examples of "byzantine greek".

They put me to bed with a hypnosleep course in Byzantine Greek, and when I woke up I not only could order a meal, buy a tunic, and seduce a virgin in Byzantine argot, but I knew some phrases that could make the mosaics of Haghia Sophia peel from the walls in shame.

Everybody had had the hypnocourse in Byzantine Greek, and for the next sixty days or so would be as fluent in that as in their native languages, but Capistrano and I had to keep remind­.