Another question comes to mind (I know NOTHING about Latin):

I noticed you transposed 'Est melior' to read 'Melior est' (a la 'Dolce et decorum est'). Is that because the way it stood would make it a question rather than a statement? the same way switching the "is" and the "that" in the preceding statement would have done the reverse?

And since I'm on a roll with sophomoric questions, am I correctly recalling that Latin did not make use of punctuation? Or even spaces, at least at one point? In that case, how *did* one signify a question?

Lastly, if Latin was not a spoken language, in what language did the people who wrote in Latin speak? And why on Earth did they write in Latin?