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All three were dead languages, but the Greek alphabet was still in use.

“Of all the mad things we humans do, there might be nothing more humbling, or more noble, than trying to translate the dead languages,” Zeno’s friend says.

If she’s sending furtive messages, they’re so subtle, they might as well be Morse code wrapped in semaphore filtered through hieroglyphics and the dead languages of our forefathers eight generations back.

Much of the commentary on “quid pro quo” has focussed on its Latin origins and suggested that its wide circulation might spark an interest in dead languages.

Somehow, Ben felt, dead languages could sway God more easily than a language soiled by everyday use.