A critical overview of the circulation of Latin literature in Late Antique Egypt (5th-7th cent.) is offered through a survey of texts on papyrus and their contextualization, in order to highlight the role Latin played within such a multilingual and multicultural context and the forms of its relationship with Greek, which was the dominant language. Both the four canonical authors making up the so-called 'quadriga' of the grammarian Arusianus Messius and 'iuniores' authors like Lucan and Juvenal contributed to shaping a cultural milieu where the connection between grammar and law—and accordingly bureaucracy—was close and fundamental.