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O Tite! A Peculiar Use of the Praenomen

2019/2020, TOM 13

Mikołaj Szymański

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University of Warsaw, Institute of Classical Philology, Department of Classical Literatures and Language

Publication date

12.09.2026

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open access

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Humanities

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history

Language of publication

English

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Abstract

As we see from Ennius, the praenomen alone can be used by a Greek addressing a Roman; as we see from Lucilius, it can be also employed by a Roman greeting a philhellene in jest. At the beginning of Cato Maior, Cicero quotes the passage of Ennius, but those words when addressed by him to Atticus acquire a similar function as those mentioned by Lucilius.

Keywords:

Praenomen,Quintus Ennius,Gaius Lucilius,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Titus Pomponius Atticus

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