Abstract This chapter takes up essential issues discussed in the volume and focuses on three topics that seem to offer particularly attractive potential for further research into social factors in Latinization. These are (1) the different roles of an individual in society, which are also linked to different language levels and lexicons; (2) the many social microcosms, which contain language and behavioural codes that are visible to the outside world but are self-contained; (3) the openness of the language aspect of Roman identity: the language of the Romans is ‘foreign’, it is Latin, not ‘Roman’.
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