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- By cognomen.
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Neque Valens alicui pepercit qui Theo cognomine vocaretur.
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Secunda ab hac Diospolis, sive Thebae cognomine Ægyptiæ; quas centum portas habuisse ferunt; sive, at alii ajunt, centum aulas, totidem olim Principum domos; solitasque singulas, ubi negotium exegerat, ducenos armatos milites effundere.
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Robertus Ketenensis natione et cognomine Anglus, degustatis primum per Anglorum gymnasia humanarum artium elementis literarijs, vltramarinas statim visitare prouincias in animo constituit:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Si plus adposcere visus, fit Mimnermus et optivo cognomine crescit. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Hegio, itaque suo me semper condecoret cognomine, ut ego vidi.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Prato, and we find the same expression in the verse of a Milanese court poet: "_Et Maurum læto patris cognomine dictum_."
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887
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Cardan writes (_Opera_, tom.i. p. 107): -- "qui cum mihi amicus esset dum floreret, Rexque cognomine ob potentiam appellaretur, conjectus in carcerem, miseré vitam ibi, ne dicam crudeliter, finivit: nam per quindecim dies in profundissima gorgyne fuit, ut vivus sepeliretur."
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But there seems absolutely no foundation for this accusation which was probably suggested to after-detractors anxious for evidence that ingratitude, as one of them says, "was the great and unpardonable blemish of his life" -- by the epigram in question, in which he distinguishes his professor as "solo cognomine Major."
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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Palinurus rejoiced in the regions below, at learning from the mouth of the Sibyl, that the promontory near which he was drowned would henceforth be called by his name: _gaudet cognomine terra_.
Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific Gabriel Franchere 1824
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[35] Inter æstuaria Bætis oppidum Nebrissa, cognomine Veneria.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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