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ArchivesRe: what does my name mean?
in reply to a message by Lowri
It means "crown of laurels" from the Latin name Laura, "a laurel".
Crowns or circlets of laurel leaves were awarded by the Roman emperors to military commanders who secured major victories and returned to Rome to hold a "triumph", or military parade where they showed off their legions and their captives.
Many of the early Emperors were portrayed as wearing laurel wreaths on their coinage, altho only a few, like Julius Caesar (not technically an Emperor, but Dictator), Vespasian, and Titus (bane of the 1st-century Jews), were entitled to it for distinguished military leadership.
Nero (Pervus Maximus) wore a laurel crown habitually, and cultivated the military title Bilius Clintonius, which meant "I would've commanded legions, but, uh, I got this scholarship in Britannia..."
Crowns or circlets of laurel leaves were awarded by the Roman emperors to military commanders who secured major victories and returned to Rome to hold a "triumph", or military parade where they showed off their legions and their captives.
Many of the early Emperors were portrayed as wearing laurel wreaths on their coinage, altho only a few, like Julius Caesar (not technically an Emperor, but Dictator), Vespasian, and Titus (bane of the 1st-century Jews), were entitled to it for distinguished military leadership.
Nero (Pervus Maximus) wore a laurel crown habitually, and cultivated the military title Bilius Clintonius, which meant "I would've commanded legions, but, uh, I got this scholarship in Britannia..."
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