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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for gens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was pontifex maximus (from 243) and was said to have been blinded (241) in rescuing the Palladium from the burning temple of Vesta.
		Industry Veteran Frank Gens Rejoins IDC as Senior Vice President of Research.
		Association des gens d'affaires de Brossard: Media Advisory.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=gens&StartAt=11 (661 words)

	Wikipedia: Roman naming convention
		The second name or nomen is the name of the Gens (family, clan), in masculine form for men.
		During the Roman Republic and Empire, the cognomen is inherited from father to son, serving to distinguish a family within a Gens.
		This feminized cognomen was often made a diminutive (e.g., Augustus's wife Livia Drusilla was the daughter of a M. Livius Drusus).
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/r/ro/roman_naming_convention.html (1108 words)

	Claudius (gens) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gens Claudia was one of the oldest families in ancient Rome, and for centuries its members were regularly leaders of the city and empire.
		The family was traditionally held to have begun with Attius Clausus, a Sabine who favored peace with Rome, an unpopular position that led to him leaving Regillus with his followers around 504 BC.
		Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla (herself a Claudian Nero through her father Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus) was adopted by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (see Julio-Claudian dynasty).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claudius_(gens) (561 words)

	LIVIUS ANDRONICUS - LoveToKnow Article on LIVIUS ANDRONICUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He is supposed to have been a native of Tarentum, and to have been brought, while still a boy, after the capture of that town in 272, as a slave to Rome.
		In 240, the year after the end of the first Punic War, he produced at the ludi Romani a translation of a Greek play (it is uncertain whether a comedy or tragedy or both), and this representation marks the beginning of Roman literature (Livy Vii.
		Livius himself took part in his plays, and in order to spare his voice he introduced the custom of having the solos (canhica) sung by a boy, while he himself represented the action of the song by dumb show.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LI/LIVIUS_ANDRONICUS.htm (613 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Livius
		Livy (59 bc–ad 17) (Titus Livius) Roman historian.
		The earliest works date from the 3rd century bc, and were imitations of Greek drama and Greek literature by Livius Andronicus and Naevius.
		Reared by his uncle Marcus Livius Drusus, he showed an intense devotion to the principles of the early republic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Livius (679 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 789 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Augustus left Livia and Tiberius as his heirs; and by his testament adopted her into the Julia gens, in consequence of which she received the name of Julia Augusta.
		By the accession of her son to the imperial throne, Livia had now attained the long-cherished object of her ambition, and by means of her son.
		The cognomens in this gens are denter, drusus, libo, macatus, and salinator.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1897.html (902 words)

	Livius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Livius (plural Livii) was the name of a gens of Ancient Rome.
		Marcus Livius Salinator, consul in 219 and 207 BC, and winner of Hasdrubal at Metaurus;
		Forlì in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) was called Forum Livii after Livius Salinator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Livius (177 words)

	Roman naming convention
		A possible explanation for this is that the numerical praenomen came instead to stand for the number of the month in which the person was born.
		Examples follow:\n* Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Augustus), born in the Octavii family, adopted by Julius Caesar\n* Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus (Princeps senatus in the 1st century BC), born as the son of a Livius, adopted into the Aemilii Lepidii.\nSee adoption in Rome.
		This has created a host of problems for modern scholars, since in many cases we no longer have the contemporaneous context that would have made it obvious which person was actually meant, and in some of these cases accurate identification has never been possible.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/r/ro/roman_naming_convention.html (1216 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Livia (Wife of Augustus)
		Livia was born Livia Drusilla in 58 BC,[[2]] the daughter of M. Livius Drusus Claudianus and Alfidia.
		Her father, on the other hand, was born Appius Claudius Pulcher and was adopted as an infant by M. Livius Drusus, tribune in 91 BC.
		The adoption did not change her legal position but it did serve to legitimize the position of Tiberius, who was an adopted Julian and now became a naturalized one as well.
	www.roman-emperors.org /livia.htm (3426 words)

	Gens Ambrosia :: Roman Names
		All members of a gens were descended from a common remote ancestor, even though that ancestor might be unknown.
		For example, in the name Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Cornelius is the gens, Scipio is the family within the gens, and Nasica is a further subdivision of the family.
		For example, the daughter of Valerius Messalla was Valeria Messalina, and the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was Livia Drusilla.
	www.ambrosii.com /names.html (2224 words)

	GNAEUS NAEVIUS - LoveToKnow Article on GNAEUS NAEVIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But the phrase Campanian arrogance seems to have been used proverbially for gasconade ; and, as there was a plebeian gens Naevia in Rome, it is quite as probable that he was by birth a Roman citizen.
		As distinguished from Livius Andronicus, Naevius was a native Italian, not a Greek; he was also an original writer, n.ot a mere adapter or translator.
		If it was due to Livius that the forms of Latin literature were, from the first, moulded on those of Greek literature, it was due to Naevius that much of its spirit and substance was of native growth.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NA/NAEVIUS_GNAEUS.htm (1184 words)

	Roman Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thus, Publius Cornelius Scipio was Publius of the Scipio family of the Cornelian gens, and Gaius Julius Caesar was Gaius of the Caesar family of the Julian gens.
		The gens Cornelia (the noun gens is feminine, so all clan names are spoken about in their feminie form, i.e.
		Originally a Roman name consisted of three elements: a personal name (praenomen), and name indicating the clan (gens, pl. gentes) to which he belonged, and his filiation, that is, the indication of his father's praenomen.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /rome-names.htm (1577 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Roman naming convention
		In the Roman naming convention used in ancient Rome, male names typically contain three proper nouns which are classified as praenomen (or given name), nomen gentile (or Gens name) and cognomen.
		The second name or nomen gentile is the name of the gens (family, clan), in masculine form for men.
		Augustus's wife Livia Drusilla was the daughter of a M. Livius Drusus).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Roman_naming_convention (1186 words)

	A History of Roman Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Livius and Ennius worked at Latin in order to construct a literary dialect that should also be the speech of the people.
		The branch to which he belonged derived its distinguishing name from Fabius Pictor the grandfather of the historian, who, in 312 B.C. painted the temple of Salus, which was the oldest known specimen of Roman art, and existed, applauded by the criticism of posterity, until the era of Claudius.
		This single incident proves that in a period when Roman feeling as a rule recoiled from practising the arts of peace, members of this intellectual gens were already proficients in one of the proscribed Greek accomplishments, and taken into connection with the polished cultivation of the Claudii, and perhaps of other gentes,
	manybooks.net /pages/cruttweletext058romn10/108.html (144 words)

	ROMAN NAMING CONVENTION FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Often the cognomen was chosen based on some physical or personality trait, sometimes with ironic intent: Julius Caesar's cognomen meant ''hairy'', while he was balding, and Tacitus's cognomen meant ''silent'', while he was a well-known orator.
		Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus (''Princeps senatus'' in the 1st century BC), born as the son of a certain Livius, adopted into the Aemilii Lepidi.
		In everyday use, people were referred to by either a combination of the praenomen and nomen gentile, or even more usually by just their cognomen.
	www.agseinc.com /Roman_naming_convention (1168 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 1017 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This account seems to be founded upon a confusion of the lex judiciaria of C. Gracchus with the later one of Livius Drusus (Walter, Gesck.
		The latter proposed, that as the senate consisted of 300, an equal number of equites should be elected (apMrrivSrjv} into the senate, and that in future the judiccs should be taken from this senate of 600.
		As, according to this theory, each decury or gens appointed one senator, each cury was represented by ten, each tribe by one hundred, and the whole populus by three hundred senators, all of whom held their dignity for life.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/1024.html (1012 words)

	Ancient Rome information - Search.com
		However, as Romans reckoned descent through the male line, any children she had would belong to her husband's family.
		Groups of related households formed a family (gens).
		Families were based on blood ties (or adoption), but were also political and economic alliances.
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	Cohors Censoris CFQ - Nomina
		The second name or nomen is the name of the gens (clan) in masculine form.
		If an applicant wants to create a new gens, the censores must be contacted for approval and it should be one of the gentes proven to actually have existed during the Republic.
		During the Roman Republic, the cognomen is inherited from father to son, serving to distinguish a family within a gens.
	www.hanenberg-media-webdesign.com /cohors/nomina.htm (1219 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was from somewhat inferior line of the ancient patrician gens, cornelii, and was the first person to bring that family into glory (or to infame).
		Metelli were not patricians, but they were the most prominent gens of the time, and approximately between 120-110 bc.
		Lentulus Clodianus was from an ancient patrician gens.
	www.sirius.sgic.fi /~juha/consuls.html (2000 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
		The family was of plebeian origin, but was of great prominence in the Roman Republic, having been honoured with eight consulships, two censorships, and three triumphs, as well as with the offices of Roman dictator dictator and master of the horse.
		Among the most prominent members of the Livii: '''Livius Andronicus'''; '''Marcus Livius Salinator''', consul in 219 BC 219 and 207 BC, and winner of Hasdrubal at battle of the Metaurus Metaurus; '''Gaius Livius* Salinator''', consul in 188 BC; '''Titus Livius''' ("the" Livius, in English also '''Livy'''); '''Livius Drusus'''; *'''Livia Augusta''' (Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus).
		There you will find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Livius.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Livius.html (188 words)

	Aurelius Definition / Aurelius Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Aurelii (meaning 'the golden') were a Roman gensIn ancient Rome, the gens (pl. gentes) was a term used to refer to a clan, or group of families, that shared a common name (the nomen) and a belief in a common ancestor.
		In the Roman naming convention, the second name was the name of the gens to which the person belonged....
		He was on intimate terms with the tribune Marcus Livius Drusus, who was murdered in 91 BC, and in the same year was an unsuccessful candidate for the tribunate.
	www.elresearch.com /Aurelius (600 words)

	NAME - LoveToKnow Article on NAME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After the time of Sulla some of the old praenomina were revived, unless they are rather to be regarded as cognomina, which in some families displaced the praenomen proper, as in the case of a certain Africanus Aemilius Regulus.
		The cognomen (surname) was the name given to a Roman citizen as a member of a familia or branch of the gens, whereby the family was distinguished from other families belonging to the same gems.
		In the time of Caesar, the freedman took the pruenolnen of the patronus and the gentile name of one of the friends of the latter; thus, Cicero calls his slave Dionysius M. Pomponius Dionysius as a token of friendship forT.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NA/NAME.htm (5101 words)

	Livia
		FIRST WOMAN OF Livia was born in 58 BCE, the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus and Alfidia.
		Her father though was born Appius Claudius Pulcher and was adopted as an infant by M. Livius Drusus who was tribune in 91 BCE.
		At the age of 15 or 16, she was married to Tiberius Claudius Nero, who was an opponent of the young Octavian.
	cornellia.fws1.com /livia.htm (1850 words)

	Cartographica Neerlandica Map Text for Ortelius Map No. 208 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That the flute (tibia) was the invention of the Tyrrheni, with which they not only fought, but also whipped their servants, yes, and for cooking, is cited by Iulius Pollux from Aristoteles.
		Livius, (supported by Diodorus) says it is the richest province of all Italy, both in terms of men, arms and money.
		Livius and Plinius confirm that Mantua and Atri were settlements of the Tusci.
	www.orteliusmaps.com /book/ort_text208.html (1456 words)

	Cato the Younger
		Reared by his uncle Marcus Livius Drusus, he showed an intense devotion to the principles of the early republic.
		Brutus, in ancient Rome - Brutus, in ancient Rome, a surname of the Junian gens.
		Julius Caesar: Rise to Power - Rise to Power Although he was born into the Julian gens, one of the oldest patrician families in...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0810890.html (288 words)

	Glossary
		By the end of the Republic, however, there was a trend toward women having 2 names: the female form of the nomen of her father and her cognomen, which would be the feminine form of the family cognomen (Caecilia Metella Crassi was the daughter of L. Caecilius Metellus and wife of P. Licinius Crassus).
		The freedman of a woman took the name of her father, e.g., Marcus Livius Augustae l Ismarus; the letter l stood for libertus, and was inserted in all formal documents.
		The nomen was termed as the nomen gentilicum and was the name of the gens (family or clan) and later as a political grouping.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /temetfutue/glossary/glossaryN.htm (4929 words)

	414 Roman Comedy I (Plautus), Classical Drama and Theatre
		A freed slave, we are told, Livius Andronicus served in the house of the Livii, a noble family of Rome, from whom he took his name.
		Livius Andronicus had premiered his work at the central Roman festival, the Ludi Romani ("the Roman games"), but soon other festivals joined the theatre fray: the ludi Plebeii ("the Plebeians' games"), the ludi Apolinares (those in honor of Apollo), the ludi Megalenses (in honor of the Asian goddess Cybele), and others.
		All in all, the situation recalls the works of Shakespeare who also "borrowed" plots from others' work, nor are the reasons that both he and his Roman forebears did not forge entirely new works hard to understand.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/141plautus.htm (3599 words)

	Roman Names
		Three brothers of the gens Aurelia, all active in Roman politics in the seventh century AUC.
		He was a Greek from Sicily, a slave of the Gens Livia.
		Women were sometimes given names that indicated their relative position in a household, such as Maxima or Minor; daughters were sometimes given names that indicated their order of birth: Prima (first), Secunda (second), Tertia (third).
	www.antonineimperium.org /roman_names.htm (772 words)

	Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 341
		The nomen indicates the family or tribe (gens).
		Thus, Andronicus, the slave of Marcus Livius Salinator, became when freed "Lucius Livius Andronicus", the individual name coming last as a sort of cognomen.
		Even more interesting things were going on among the lower classes, where the distinction between different types of names broke down entirely, and by the late empire we find praenomina, nomina, and cognomina all being used as we would understand "given names" to be.
	www.panix.com /~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/341.txt (982 words)

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