Message: "CLARUS before St.Claurus (7th cent.) ?"

CLARUS before St.Claurus (7th cent.) ?

by Andy ;---) (guest)

5/25/2006, 1:33 PM

I'm trying to trace back the name CLAIRE > CLARA > CLARUS, but have failed to get beyond St.Clarus, a 7th cent. bishop. Was Clarus used as a name in the Roman Empire? Is there a link for Latin names like LGPN for Greek names?

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- Ivayla +2

5/25/2006, 2:31 PM

Probably not much use, but...

Clarus was definitely used as a cognomen in the Roman empire:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_cognomina

And, in fact, there were two 2nd century Roman consuls who bore it, Erucius Clarus and Erucius Clarus II:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_imperial_Roman_consuls#2nd_century

Edited to take hyperlinks off of 'Roman' and to fix "1st century" to "2nd" (duh!) :)

~ Ivayla,
skillfully disguised as a responsible adult

This message was edited 5/26/2006, 9:42 AM

- Andy ;---) (guest) +1

5/25/2006, 10:23 PM

Very helpful!

Thanks a lot for your help. This answers my question to some degree, so I can at least say: the name CLARUS turns up in the list of Roman consuls in the first (or rather second?) cent. This is something.
Thanks also for the links! I had come across those consul lists before, but didn't think of them when I did my research (and finally got lost in google).

- Ivayla

5/26/2006, 9:07 AM

Yup, my bad. Of course it's the second century :)

~ Ivayla,
skillfully disguised as a responsible adult

This message was edited 5/26/2006, 8:52 PM

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