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What if at the time of the expansion of the Roman Republic, the Greeks had managed to Hellenize both the west (through Massilia and perhaps an Alexander conquest of Carthage) and the east (through diadochi states as historically)?

In a Greek dominated Mediterranean, where would Latin expand? Would Roman Italy eventually become Greek through immigration from the rest of the empire? Or would Hellenism be spread so thin that some areas that became Greek would become Latin?

Perhaps Latin could spread to the Po Valley, then the general area of "Austria Hungary", and then along the Rhine or Danube.
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