11-20-2008, 12:03 AM
Hi Chris,
My pleasure.
Rotundus is OK as a nickname (I know a gladiator with that name.. :wink: ) but you can easily use it as a gens name. Sure, we know a number of such names, but as a historian I do not suffer from the impression that we could posssibly know all names.
See? There's another reason for differences, the discussion (I'm not going there!) about what we can use and what we can't.
My pleasure.
Quote:On the nomen issue, I was under the impression that there were only about 150 recognized nomen? The reason I was going to use Rotundus as my cognomen was that I didn't think it was viable as a nomen, but I wanted to give a nod to my mom's family, so I thought I'd sneak it in as a nickname (meaning "the round").
Am I off base on this?
Rotundus is OK as a nickname (I know a gladiator with that name.. :wink: ) but you can easily use it as a gens name. Sure, we know a number of such names, but as a historian I do not suffer from the impression that we could posssibly know all names.
See? There's another reason for differences, the discussion (I'm not going there!) about what we can use and what we can't.
Robert Vermaat
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THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
