Cognomen

înainte de a exista Scipioni, şi nu, aşa cum se spune adeseori, că familia Scipionilor s-a asociat cu altele pentru a forma gens Cornelia. Vedem, într-adevăr, din istorie, că gens Cornelia a fost mult timp nedivizată şi că toţi membrii ei purtau cognomen-ul de Maluginensis şi pe cel de Cossus. Doar pe vremea dictatorului Camillus, una dintre ramurile sale adoptă porecla de Scipio; puţin mai tîrziu, o altă ramură ia porecla de Rufus, pe care o înlocuieşte, apoi, cu cea de Sylla. Cei cu porecla Lentulus

handed down from father to son, indicating that he was a member of the Livii family or clan. Ocella was his cognomen, so it was meant to indicate what particular branch of the Livii had borne him; or it could have been given as an honorific for his service in a war. (I had no idea what war that could have been.) As a third possibility, if he’d been adopted into another family, the cognomen would reflect his birth family. Your name said a lot about you in the Roman world. I wasted a lot of time finding

petit-fils de Paul-Émile, neveu d’Emilien et cousin, par conséquent, de 1 Le grand pontife, adopté par P. Licinius Crassus, cos. en 175, avait, suivant l’usage, pris les noms de ce dernier en y ajoutant son gentilicium originel Mucius, transformé en cognomen (Mucianus). Tiberius, son compagnon de jeunesse, jusqu’alors son ami, était au premier rang des opposants. De même Lælius, le sage Lælius. C’étaient ses idées d’autrefois qui prenaient corps et devant lesquelles il reculait épouvanté. Dans ces