Richard Dean (1916). "A Study of the Cognomina of Soldiers in the Roman Legions". Princeton University. p. 284. "Cognomen – NovaRoma". www.novaroma.org....

inventor, was killed, despite Marcellus ordering the soldiers under his command not to harm him. Marcus Claudius Marcellus died in battle in 208 BC, leaving...

(Marcellus), grandfather of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the consul of 331 BC. Gaius Claudius C. f. (Marcellus), the father of Marcus Claudius Marcellus...

suggests the two were related. Salomies, however, concedes Marcellus could have acquired one cognomen through his mother, instead of through adoption. "But...

referred to as the tria nomina, the combination of praenomen, nomen, and cognomen that have come to be regarded as the basic elements of the Roman name in...

families, and gave rise to the patronymic gens Marcia, as well as the cognomen Marcellus. It was regularly abbreviated M. At all periods of Roman history,...

in AD 81. Quintus Asinius Marcellus, consul suffectus in an uncertain year after AD 97. Marcus Asinius M. f. M. n. Marcellus, consul in AD 104. Asinius...

ok-TAY-vee-əs, Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs ɔkˈtaːwiʊs]). According to Suetonius, the cognomen Thurinus (Latin: [tʰuːˈriːnʊs], "of Thurii") was added to his birth name...

Capitolinus, accused by Marcus Claudius Marcellus of having propositioned his son, when Scantinius and Marcellus were both aediles, about 226 BC. The senate...

which might be further differentiated by the genitive form of the father's cognomen, or for a married woman her husband's. Numerical adjectives might distinguish...