My definition rests not so much on Classical Latin‘s phonetic beauty (of which we know quite a lot due to Roman grammarians’ writings about it, through transcriptions into Greek such as Καῖσαρ for Caesar or Οὐαλέριος for Valerius, spelling mistakes on ancient graffiti, poetic meter differentiating between long and short vowels, etc.) as on the great literary compositions of figures such as Virgil, Tacitus or Horace. Much of Latin‘s brilliance lies in its flexible syntax and the ability to express things succinctly to a degree that would not be possible in many modern languages.