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Of course they weren't ligatures in Classical Latin, they were just separate letters.
When did they become ligatures? I would suspect it was in mediævel monk days when the OE and AE, originally pronounced oy and eye, respectively, had slid together in pronunciation and there were a bunch of other shortenings, letters left out, either represented by horizontal lines over words or just completely elided.
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ligatures here and there
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