And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, and in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, in Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and strangers of Rome…
-Acts of the Apostles, 2.8-10
This is how we heard them speak in our own tongue. At day’s end we were tired, and hungry and thirsty, and we saw them dismount and couch the herd, start the fire and cut onions for aseeda, fill the pot and boil water for tea, and unroll their saddle blankets, and thus we heard them say, Here we stop, Here we eat and drink, Here we sleep.