praenomina

As a schoolboy I remember the pride with which I hailed Robin Hood, Robert Bruce, and Robert le Diable as my name-fellows; and the feeling of sore disappointment that fell on my heart when I found a freebooter or a general who did not share with me a single one of my numerous praenomina.

Lay Morals 2005

Men had personal names (praenomina), women did not.

c. Economy, Society, and Culture 2001

He left behind him four sons, all men of very high station, who had the same cognomen, but the different praenomina of

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Their descendants were distinguished by various praenomina and cognomina [285], but rejected by common consent the praenomen of (193) Lucius, when, of the two races who bore it, one individual had been convicted of robbery, and another of murder.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

This family had the honour of seven consulships [548], one triumph [549], and two censorships [550]; and being admitted into the patrician order, they continued the use of the same cognomen, with no other praenomina [551] than those of Cneius and Lucius.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

As a schoolboy I remember the pride with which I hailed Robin Hood, Robert Bruce, and Robert le Diable as my name - fellows; and the feeling of sore disappointment that fell on my heart when I found a freebooter or a general who did not share with me a single one of my numerous praenomina.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

QVINtl etbECIMInoTOina, modo totidem occurrunt praenomina, nia -.

Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm cvm observationibvs antiqvariis geographicis chronologicis historicis criticis et passim cvm explicatione monogrammatvm edidit Io. Christophorvs Rasche 1785

A „ promittimus per nos nofirofque he« redcs & fuccefTores tibi praenomina - to Domino Gerardo vice & nomi - ne di£li Domini Alatrini recipienti pro Ecclefia Romana, attendere, obfervare, & non contravenire per nos vel fubmiflam perfonani ali - qua occafione vel fraude, fub o - bligatione omnium bonorum no - ftrorum, & poena in Inflrumento ipfius venditionis inferta: qua ib - luta vel commifsa vel non foluta, praedifta omnia, ut in fingulis capitulis fuperius continetur, in fua maneant firmitate.

Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, servitute, foederibus, aliisque faciem & mores Italici populi referentibus post declinationem Rom. Imp. ad annum usque MD : omnia illustrantur et confirmantur ingenti copia diplomatum et chartarum veterum, nunc primùm ex archivis Italiae depromtarum, additis etiam nummis, chronicis, aliisque monumentis nunquam antea editis Vidua Michaelis Bellotti 1773