In the church lit by candlelight at night, a group of Roman nobles, Latin nobles, and clergy were seated on either side of the long table. The war meeting, which couldn't be held during the day, had to be moved to the evening.
It should be said that before Rome was divided into East and West, the Latins and Greeks were the two most important components of this Empire.
Of course, this division is just a later perception. The current subjects of the Eastern Roman Empire have only one understanding of themselves: they are Romans, or Romans living in the Greece region.
The term "Greeks" when singularly referred to by Romans was limited to a thousand years ago when they had not converted to Christianity and still maintained the polytheistic beliefs of Ancient Greek civilization.
