noncarborundum
Posts: 320 Joined: Jan. 2009
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Quote (Rrr @ Jan. 18 2009,16:21) | Oh I knew it was Caesar's wife, only I didn't know her first name. Bet you weren't in Rome nor Gomorrah, anyway, either! Or Alvik for that matter. |
As I understand it (which is more or less "through a glass, darkly"), Roman women usually didn't have first names per se. They were just called by the feminine form of their family name. A female born of the Julius clan (the one Gaius Julius Caesar belonged to) would be named Julia, to the Tullius clan (Cicero's) Tullia, and so on. If there were several girls born to the same family they might be numbered (Julia Tertia, Tullia Quinta, etc.).
Caesar's wife was, as you will no doubt have surmised, of the Calpurnius clan. Her father was Lucius Calpurnius Piso.
-------------- "The . . . um . . . okay, I was genetically selected for blue eyes. I know there are brown eyes, because I've observed them, but I can't do it. Okay? So . . . um . . . coz that's real genetic selection, not the nonsense Giberson and the others are talking about." - DO'L
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