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ArchivesRe: Assistance on the usage of Eulampius, please?
in reply to a message by Dorchadas
Well said Dorchadas.
I am going to add that the name can be found in the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ( http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/publications/index.html ) although it seems to be rare. If it exists in that database then it almost certainly belonged to a real person. That resource covers people up to the year 600, and unfortunately there is no way to tell when the people in question were born, whether they were pagan or Christian, etc.
I also wanted to add that all Greek names written in Latin script are Latinized in a sense. However, the standard way we transcribe Greek on this site is to write κ as k (not c as the Romans might have done), the masculine nominative ending -ος as -os (not -us), and final -η as -e (not -a). If it is written using that scheme, then it can be labelled simply Ancient Greek or Late Greek. If it is instead written using a Roman scheme, then we label it Ancient Greek (Latinized) or Late Greek (Latinized).
Hope that helps!
I am going to add that the name can be found in the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ( http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/publications/index.html ) although it seems to be rare. If it exists in that database then it almost certainly belonged to a real person. That resource covers people up to the year 600, and unfortunately there is no way to tell when the people in question were born, whether they were pagan or Christian, etc.
I also wanted to add that all Greek names written in Latin script are Latinized in a sense. However, the standard way we transcribe Greek on this site is to write κ as k (not c as the Romans might have done), the masculine nominative ending -ος as -os (not -us), and final -η as -e (not -a). If it is written using that scheme, then it can be labelled simply Ancient Greek or Late Greek. If it is instead written using a Roman scheme, then we label it Ancient Greek (Latinized) or Late Greek (Latinized).
Hope that helps!
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