Chapter IV: CCXXXXIX
A full Roman name, to identify an individual (and appropriate for one’s tombstone) had a lot more than three parts. It could include:
First Name if male
Gendered form of family name
son/daughter of Father’s-full-name
Father’s title if illustrious enough
son/daughter of Mother’s-name if impressive enough
Husband’s name, optional
Tribe name, optional
Personal Name if female
Nickname or Honorifics if male
Names from Adoption
…it could go on and on.
…and then there were rules for freedmen and women to show who their former masters were and their ties of obligation.
Long titles, hungry baby… report to the garden please: a temporary wet-nurse will be issued to you.
I was hoping for Felicia.
That might still happen 🙂
It never fails, whenever you need to fill some bureaucratic forms, the baby starts wailing.
Baby wailing helps short-circuit the bureaucrats. In this one and only case, it might be considered a blessing.
i love the lettering on the baby noises.
wine and poppy extract? They’re giving the kid laudanum… great idea, she’ll be loopy for hours.
It worked for centuries. They just finally pulled opioids for colic from the drug stores in the 1960s.
I remember overhearing adults talking about putting cheap scotch in milk to make infants sleep, too.
Thinks: far-out, Citizen… mellow-mellow-mellow.
I was wondering where the other babies were. I doubt Antonia is the only surviving baby. So the garden is where all the wailing children are located.
It is! 🙂
are we seeing the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
More like she wants to get paid, but who knows.
I think right now Iusta will be BFFs with anybody who can quiet down the baby. Baby Felicia is lucky food arrived before the narcotics.
Antonia Felicia? I like that name.
but if she gets opiates she won’t have poopy diapers for a while. or whatever they used instead of diapers.