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It's "Mark Antony". Spell check!
Isn't the actual name Marcus Antonius? I wonder why we use the anglicised version for him, but the latin names for most other Romans
We also use classical Latin names for pre-classical Romans who would have written their own names rather differently.
Is this a world record for proven genealogy? I read somewhere that the British monarchy held the record tracing back to mid-Saxon times. This blows that out of the water by about 600 years.
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I still want someone to explain how Firenze got rendered as Florence.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Florence > The city name is from Roman Colonia Florentia, "flowering colony," either literal or figurative, and became Old Italian Fiorenze, modern Italian Firenze. https://italyinview.com/italian-places/italian-cities/floren... elaborates: > The Romans were the founders of Florence. Realizing the importance of a thoroughfare towards the Po plain, Ceasar in 59 B.C. ordered the establis…
Such paper lineages assume that none of the fathers were cuckolded. DNA is the only way to be sure.
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Isn't the actual name Marcus Antonius? I wonder why we use the anglicised version for him, but the latin names for most other Romans
Maybe for the same reason the names of famous cities (especially if already famous in the past) are translated into foreign languages. Examples. Roma is Rome in English and Milano is Milan. London is Londra in Italian but Manchester is Manchester and Liverpool is Liverpool. Livorno (a small Italian town where English poets liked to spend their time) is Leghorn. Aachen (a German city that used to be the residence of C…
Such records exist in Chinese culture, in particular in Taiwan and the diaspora, as they have not been interrupted before the Cultural Revolution.
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Isn't the actual name Marcus Antonius? I wonder why we use the anglicised version for him, but the latin names for most other Romans
Maybe for the same reason the names of famous cities (especially if already famous in the past) are translated into foreign languages. Examples. Roma is Rome in English and Milano is Milan. London is Londra in Italian but Manchester is Manchester and Liverpool is Liverpool. Livorno (a small Italian town where English poets liked to spend their time) is Leghorn. Aachen (a German city that used to be the residence of C…
They're not translated as much as they are derived from the same etymons used by the languages spoken there. Italian Acquisgrana or French Aix-la-Chapelle derive from Latin Aquis {capella, grana, villa}. The only properly official name most cities had throughout Europe was in Latin rather than any vernacular, including in areas where non-Romance languages were spoken such as German, English, Polish and so on.
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I still want someone to explain how Firenze got rendered as Florence.
Well or Londra? The Romans called it Londinium, so you might expect the modern Italian to be ..(I'm no expert on how Italian has modified endings).. 'Londinia' or 'Londino' or something. It's Londres in French which seems related, I wonder where they came from though.