Latin in Greek
Under the Roman rule the Greeks encountered the system of Roman officials with their titles (like consul, tribunus, etc.), too special to be translated. However, some basic norms of Greek culture were formed centuries before, and using barbaric (all non-Greek) words would be impossible for educated people with strong cultural obligations: even Polybius, who admired Rome and Roman laws, translated practically all Roman titles. Although Latin titles were terms, to borrow them meant to use barbarisms and to translate them as terms meant to create neologisms (which are mostly for poetry), while in the social context anything non-Greek was of no value and as senseless as barbaric languages. So the Greeks translated Latin terms as non-terms and thus had no correct terminology to live within the Roman political structure. Adequate translation meant using only well-known, not invented words (kuvria), whether or not anyone could understand the very special position of e.g. procuratores, who had very little in common with proconsules - but also could be called a[rconte" and hJgemovne". When the Greeks together with their teachers of rhetoric became Roman citizens, nothing changed: the Greeks understood non-Greek only when adopted into Greek. For the late Empire with its typical explosion of bureaucracy Greek way of equalizing magistrates and bureaucrats in the same semantic field of VIP, was much more adequate, being the first step to the new hierarchy - Diocletians notitia dignitatum and later the Byzantinian Table of Ranks.