• Brocchillus, Brocchus, Bromidus, Bruccius, Brucetus, Bruscius, Bruttianus, Brutus, Bubo, Bubulcus, Buca, Buccio, Bulbus, Bulla, Burcanius, Burrus, Buteo Caecilianus...
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  • A cognomen (Latin: [kɔŋˈnoːmɛn]; pl.: cognomina; from co- "together with" and (g)nomen "name") was the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under Roman...
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  • Brutus Scaeva was a Roman politician and consul in 325 BC. Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva came from the Roman plebeian Junia gens. His second cognomen Scaeva...
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    by whom she is the mother of Lucius Junius Brutus. This family lineage is proper in Livy, as he puts Brutus in the second generation after Priscus. The...
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  • Marcus Junius Brutus (consul in 178 BC) and brother of Marcus Junius Brutus (praetor in 88 BC). He had a son also named Decimus Junius Brutus (consul in...
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    Junius Bubulcus Brutus, three times consul and twice dictator during the period of the Samnite Wars, as well as Marcus and Decimus Junius Brutus, among the...
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  • referred to as the tria nomina, the combination of praenomen, nomen, and cognomen that have come to be regarded as the basic elements of the Roman name in...
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    Junius Brutus, who participated in the murder of Julius Caesar, but we cannot suppose it to be anything more than an imaginary likeness. Brutus claimed...
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    bore the name Silvius as their cognomen. His son, Aeneas Silvius, was also king of Alba Longa. In British mythology, Brutus is considered a son of Silvius...
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    Tarquin's sisters, Tarquinia, married Marcus Junius Brutus, and was the mother of Lucius Junius Brutus, one of the men who would later lead the overthrow...
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    Brutus", on the Capitoline statue of Lucius Brutus. Suet. Iul., 80.3: "If only you [Lucius Brutus] were alive". App. BCiv., 2.112: "[Lucius Brutus,]...
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  • in the defense of Saufeius in 52 BC. He was quaestor under Marcus Junius Brutus in 46 BC, when the latter had the command in Cisalpine Gaul. Aulus Terentius...
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    always added to the end of the nomen or cognomen, but sometimes also to a woman's numeral, for example, Brutus' sister Junia Tertia was nicknamed Tertulla...
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  • Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology p.538 Cicero, Brutus 226 Livy, The Periochae, 80. Cicero, Brutus, 47, 177 Cicero, De Oratore, 2.231-290...
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    rewards on Decimus Brutus than on Octavian for defeating Antony, then attempted to give command of the consular legions to Decimus Brutus. In response, Octavian...
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  • calling them Brutuses—not after Marcus Junius Brutus, not yet the assassin of Caesar, but after Lucius Junius Brutus, a possibly apocryphal figure who had led...
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  • in the countryside. The tria nomina, consisting of praenomen, nomen and cognomen, which are today regarded as a distinguishing feature of Roman culture...
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    the Mucii of imperial times. The only major family of the Mucii bore the cognomen Scaevola. This surname is said to have been acquired by Gaius Mucius, who...
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  • Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, spells the cognomen as Galus rather than Gallus. Livy xliii.14 Chisholm 1911.  This article incorporates...
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  • Rutilius Rufus in 105 BC. The nomen Rutilius is derived from the Latin cognomen Rutilus, red or reddish, which was probably borne by an ancestor of the...
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    said to be derived from the Latin adjective claudus, meaning "lame". As a cognomen, Claudus is occasionally found in other gentes. However, since there is...
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  • missionary and first bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana Brutus, the cognomen of an Ancient Roman family whose vocative form is "Brute" Bill "The...
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    col. 260 (Cornelius 203). Sumner, The Orators in Cicero's Brutus, pp. 140–143. Cicero, Brutus, 36. Appian, Bella Mithridatica, 95. Orelli, Onomasticon...
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  • the other Roman contemporaries he wrote about, such as Pompey, Cicero, or Brutus. Most of Plutarch's source was the lost Histories of Asinius Pollio, a contemporary...
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  • Gaius Junius Bubulcus Brutus (fl. late 4th century BC) was a Roman general and statesman, he was elected consul of the Roman Republic thrice, he was also...
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    Milo. Lucilius, a partisan of Brutus, who fought at the Battle of Philippi. During the retreat, he pretended to be Brutus in order to save his friend....
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    Manlii, as the name was rarely used in later generations. The earliest cognomen found amongst the Manlii is Cincinnatus, better known from the Quinctia...
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  • postnominal B. Bravo, the military time zone code for UTC+02:00 Brutus, a Roman cognomen (abbreviation B) Farmall B, a tractor produced by International...
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  • families of the Bruttii appear under the Republic, during which the only cognomen is Sura. A number of surnames occur in imperial times, of which all but...
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  • The nomen Fulvius is evidently of Latin origin, and is derived from the cognomen Fulvus, originally designating someone with yellowish or golden-brown hair...
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