[antir-heralds] Name Check: Lucia Magnus

[Ursula Whitcher]

> The only problem I can see is with Lucius-as-nomen. The Laurel site 
> (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/roman/names.html) only list Lucius as 
> a praenomen, which agrees with my (scanty) reading anent Republic/early Imperial 
> Rome. 

Oh, sorry, I should have caught that.

> As pointed out in http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/roman_names.html, by the late 
> Republic, women's names were changing somewhat, but in no case was the father's 
> praenomen used. The above-referenced St. Gabriel report, referring to even later 
> times, makes clear the praenomina were pretty much gone, which I would expect 
> means Lucius (and hence Lucia) were gone, too.

You'll note that the Saint Gabriel report 2842 describes <Lucius> as a 
nomen, not as a praenomen.  I think that means that it had been adopted 
as a nomen sometime after the time of the Republic-- I'll ask the 
Academy to clarify.  (I wrote the letter, but I didn't do all of the 
research, and the Academy archives for the letter aren't available at 
the moment.)

Ursula Georges.