How To Use Cognomen In A Sentence
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The cognomen Maro is in origin a magistrate's title used by Etruscans and Umbrians, but cognomina were a recent fashion in the first century B.C. and were selected by parents of the middle classes largely by accident.
Vergil
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Under the temporary pressure of pecuniary liabilities, contracted with a view to their immediate liquidation, but remaining unliquidated through a combination of circumstances, I have been under the necessity of assuming a garb from which my natural instincts recoil — I allude to spectacles — and possessing myself of a cognomen, to which I can establish no legitimate pretensions.
David Copperfield
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Therefore, when spear was spelt "spere," the cognomen should be spelt "Shakespere"; when spear was spelt "speare," as it was in the sixteenth century, the name should be spelt "Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's Family
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One of the new owners bears the cognomen of Mark and, as many people know, the Thai phrase that sounds a lot like ‘mark, mark’ means ‘much’ or ‘a lot of’.
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Justices of the United States of America, all save one, and yet some there be, and their name is not meagre, who hold and maintain that the aforesaid vacant frame lacks a suitable head in the chiefest of the justiciaries of the antecedent high - sounding cognomen.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
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Her patronymic should follow in the next two lines, consisting of her father's gentilicium and Greek cognomen.
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At Suetonius mira constantia medios inter hostes Londinium perrexit, cognomento quidem coloni� non insigne, sed copia negociatorum & commeatu maxime celebre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The survivor was named "Hoyle" (a cognomen for our old friend Hurley) and his doings gave us a new fund of entertainment.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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A grateful Senate voted him the cognomen Augustus, by which name he is generally known in the history books.
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It didn't last long under that cognomen and now goes by the less enticing Pan Nice Lady Bar.
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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
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Unfortunately, the only evidence that the inscription provides for identifying the father of Flavia Menandra is his gentilicium and a lacuna of nine or ten letters for his cognomen.
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The first revolver bearing the cognomen LadySmith was the Model M Hand Ejector of 1902.
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[_Detlefsen_: quae _codd_] in Etruria factitata sint non est dubium. deorum tantum putarem ea fuisse, ni Metrodorus Scepsius, cui cognomen
The Last Poems of Ovid
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They were termed _apprenticii ad legem_, or _ad barras_; and hence arose the cognomen of _barristers_.
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition
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Metellus is an unhappy choice of name then, because not only is a cognomen used as praenomen, but it's also one of those cognomen closely associated with one powerful family.
The Legions of Rome: novelizations - "Soldier of Rome 1/2" by James Mace and "Marius Mules" by SJ Turney (Overview/Review by Liviu Suciu)
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With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.
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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
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Indian interpreters do their stuff in faultless Anglo-Indian or Indo-Anglian ( "Actually her given name is Bhoomi, the earth, but her friends are calling her by this Boonyi cognomen which, sir, is the beloved tree of Kashmir").
Hobbes in the Himalayas
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CORNIOLE GIOVANNI DELLE, i.e. Giovanni of the Cornelians, the cognomen given to an engraver of these stones in the time of Lorenzo di Medici.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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Robert Fitzgerald correctly refers to Athena's cognomen in the first book of the Odyssey as ‘Mentes.’
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Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri.
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Scipio received the cognomen Africanus and returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph.
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‘The name ‘Caesar’ is a cognomen, a nickname given to one member of a Roman clan and borne by his descendants as a kind of surname.
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Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri.
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Men acquired names from some notable action or occurrence; such was the agnomen, and frequently the cognomen, of the Romans.
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The name chickpea traces back through the French chiche to Latin cicer (from which the Roman cognomen Cicero was taken).
Find Me A Cure
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Galaxy's tough, brawling style earned him the cognomen, ‘The Thai Tyson’ and his record certainly shows a man who dominated his division.
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This malconformation below did not, however, affect his strength -- it rather added to it; and there were but few men in the ship who would venture a wrestle with the boatswain, who was very appropriately distinguished by the cognomen of Jemmy Ducks.
Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend