praenomen
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Origin of praenomen
1655–65; < Latin praenōmen, equivalent to prae- prae- + nōmen name
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But the praenomen is wanting in the original, and the inscription may have been erected not by the satirist but by one of his kinsfolk.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
No Marcus Seneca is known, though Marcus was the praenomen of both Gallio and Mela, and of Lucan.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
He therefore changed his praenomen to that of his adoptive father, and put his former nomen among his cognomina.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
He clothed himself with the powers and the badges of the consuls, the praenomen of imperator, the functions of perpetual dictator.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John
Hardy also states that Decimus is a common praenomen of the plebeian gens Iunia, and suggests that Juvenal may have got his praenomen from them.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
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