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- From: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
- Subject: Re: Praenominal trivia and chronological matters
- In-Reply-To: mcdowell@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.193425.18257@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
- Organization: Stanford University Academic Information Resources
- References: <1992Sep1.135055.20365@head-cfa.harvard.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 19:34:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.135055.20365@head-cfa.harvard.edu>, mcdowell@head-cfa (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
- >Forgive me for asking a 'look it up in the reference section' question, but
- >I'm not familiar enough with the field to know where to look.
- >
- >Can anyone tell me what the Roman praenomen used by the Fabii and abbreviated
- >'N.' stands for? (example: N. Fabius Pictor, cos. 266 BC) Where could I look
- >something like that up? (My Cassell's dictionary gives most of the praenominal
- >abbreviations but not that one).
-
- Numerius.
-
- Found in Allen&Greenough, _New Latin Grammar_, under "Praenomen."
- --
- Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
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