St. Augustine on Liturgical Latin
To the accusation that the pagans made of
Christians that they had altered the purity of the Latin language, St Augustine
replied: “Nec quaerant grammatici quam
sit latinum, sed christiani quam verum. 'Salus'
enim latinum nomen est. 'Salvare' et 'salvator' non fuerunt haec latinc
antequam veniret salvator; quando ad Latinos venit, et
haec Latina fecit. Serm 299,6: “And let the
grammarians not ask whether the word is Latin, nor the Christians whether it is
true. Salus is a Latin word, salvare and salvator never existed before the coming of the salvator : when he came to the Latins he
made this Latin.”
Renato De Zan “How to Interpret a Collect” Appreciating
the Collect pp. 64-65
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