Latin for Dummies by Hull Clifford A.;Perkins Steven R.; & Steven R. Perkins

Author:Hull, Clifford A.;Perkins, Steven R.; & Steven R. Perkins [Hull, Clifford A. & Perkins, Steven R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2022-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

If all the letters were put back in, you’d have this:

Marcus Agrippa Luci filius consul tertium fecit.

Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, consul for the third time, made this.

Given the amount of room the inscribers had to work with on most monuments, you can see why the Romans abbreviated. The following are just a few of the abbreviations that you can find in Roman inscriptions:

L: Lucius

C: Gaius

An older form of this name was Caius. Eventually, the name spelling changed, but the abbreviation never did.

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