| Her patronymic should follow in the next two lines, consisting of her father's gentilicium and Greek cognomen. |
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| Scipio received the cognomen Africanus and returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph. |
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| It didn't last long under that cognomen and now goes by the less enticing Pan Nice Lady Bar. |
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| A grateful Senate voted him the cognomen Augustus, by which name he is generally known in the history books. |
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| Where a person has more than one cognomen, you should normally use the first one. |
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| When calling someone by only one name, it is normal and polite to use the cognomen. |
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| Instead others sustain that the origins of the cognomen derives from an individual of short dimensions and very able. |
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| As was mentioned above, spouses and lovers generally call each other by cognomen rather than praenomen. |
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| Documents dating between 1521 and 1524 attest that he had assumed the cognomen Lieto, the Italian version of Laetus, substituting this for his actual patronymic, Allegri. |
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| With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution. |
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| Similarly calling someone by his matronymic cognomen will draw attention to his mother's identity and family. |
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| As his adopted son took the same cognomen, Pliny founded a branch, the Plinii Secundi. |
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| It is the first recorded account of Teach's appearance and is the source of his cognomen, Blackbeard. |
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| He did not take his father's cognomen, Celer, but assumed his own, Secundus. |
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| He was given the name Gaius Octavius Thurinus, his cognomen possibly commemorating his father's victory at Thurii over a rebellious band of slaves. |
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| The word Caesar was merely a cognomen for one branch of the Julian family, yet Augustus transformed Caesar into a new family line that began with him. |
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