RedDordit t1_it1tgqc wrote on October 20, 2022 at 9:46 AM

Reply to comment by Tiako in One of the longest ancient Roman inscriptions ever discovered in Britain is to go on display for the first time. by Demderdemden

This is not confusing at all (the way you put it, I mean). But it’s very complicated, and we have to consider these names were not regular like they might be in today’s Brazil: only nobles had these many names since it was, in fact, pompous. Regular people only had a praenomen, as they didn’t belong to a gens.

_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ t1_it6ieal wrote on October 21, 2022 at 8:15 AM

All Roman citizens had three names. Only slaves and foreigners would have fewer.