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L.Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus

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Does the Caesoninus denote that this Calpurnian was adopted? Or is it a nickname? If adopted, from which family?

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The ending of "-inus" could indicate an adoptive cognomen, no different from one ending in "-ianus," or it could be a derivation from the father's nomen gentilicium (as in Corvus/Corvinus and Lactuca/Lactucinus of the Valerii).

 

As it was, the Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus who was consul in 148 BCE had been adopted from the Caesonia gens, and "Caesoninus" became a hereditary, second cognomen of the Republican Calpurnii Pisones Caesonini.

 

-- Nephele

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