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Help[Facts] Re: Lupus
in reply to a message by Dorchadas
You're right, Lupus was a cognomen in classical times. I'll change that.
Cognomina had some aspects of surnames and some aspects of given names. Sometimes they were inherited, but not always. Often siblings had different cognomina. Sometimes Romans had multiple cognomina, some inherited and some not. Like a "modern given name", it could be used to distinguish people, even father from son and sibling from sibling, when the praenomina and nomina were no longer able to fulfill that function. Especially after the Republic and into imperial times.
At some point it would be good to add the nomina to the surname site...
Cognomina had some aspects of surnames and some aspects of given names. Sometimes they were inherited, but not always. Often siblings had different cognomina. Sometimes Romans had multiple cognomina, some inherited and some not. Like a "modern given name", it could be used to distinguish people, even father from son and sibling from sibling, when the praenomina and nomina were no longer able to fulfill that function. Especially after the Republic and into imperial times.
At some point it would be good to add the nomina to the surname site...
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