• @el_abuelo@programming.dev
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    274 months ago

    People in this thread frothing at the mouth because it’s a title, not a name, must have forgotten about Caesar. And that it doesn’t matter - people call their kids all kinds of weird shit.

    • @noli@lemmy.zip
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      34 months ago

      You mean Gaius Julius Caesar? Caesar was his last name, aka family name.

      • @cjk@discuss.tchncs.de
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        374 months ago

        His family name was Julius (because he was from the family of the Iulii). Caesar was a title and since Augustus became part of the name when the position was taken up.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          164 months ago

          Caesar was a title

          Caesar became a title after the collapse of the Republic, largely because the Augustine line carried it forward as proof of legitimacy. There was no position of “Caeser” within the Roman Republic, just a family name dating back to Julius Caeser’s great-grandfather.

        • @Taalen@lemmy.world
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          114 months ago

          Well, technically both Julius and Caesar were his last names, Caesar was an extra name of unknown origin in his family branch. Since him it became a title.