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Dive Grabovi, piato arcis Fisiae, urbis Iguvinae, nomen, magistratus, ritus, viros, pecora, fundos, fruges: piato, esto volens propitius pace tua arci Fisiae, etc. Dive Grabovi, salvam servato arcem Fisiam salvam servato urbem Iguvinam Dive Grabovi, te hoc bove opimo piaculo pro arce Fisia, pro urbe Iguvina, pro arcis nomine, pro urbis nomine, Dive Grabovi, te invocavi.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Each individual has his prænomen, nomen, and cognomen, carefully indicated, together with the names of his father, tribe, and country.— Pagan and Christian Rome
Compare Tr IV x 121-22 (to his Muse) 'tu mihi, quod rarum est, uiuo sublime dedisti / nomen, ab exequiis quod dare fama solet' and Martial I i 2-6 (cited in the previous note).— The Last Poems of Ovid
[951]Sit Osiris, sit Omphis, Nilus, Siris, sive quodcunque aliud ab Hierophantis usurpatum nomen, ad unum tandem Solem_, antiquissimum Gentium numen, redeunt omnia END OF VOL. I W. Marchant, Printer, 3, Greville-street, Holborn Notes to Volume I 1] Henry VI.— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
Now the regular Greek custom is to place the gentile name, or even the prćnomen, after the cognomen: but the regular Latin custom (and after all Dio has more of the Roman in his makeup than of the Greek) is to observe the order prćnomen_, nomen_, cognomen_.— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form

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