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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Men had personal names (praenomina), women did not. ❋ Unknown (2001)

He left behind him four sons, all men of very high station, who had the same cognomen, but the different praenomina of ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

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. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

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. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

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. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

QVINtl etbECIMInoTOina, modo totidem occurrunt praenomina, nia -. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Vidua Michaelis Bellotti (1773)