SPQR Blues part XC (bottom)

[spqrblues]

There's more to come today (Saturday), so more will be going on than a bunch of people lolling around. No, wait, actually, there is more lolling to come...







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[meritahut.livejournal.com]

As it turns out, he has two given names--Ioudas Alexander--plus the nickname "Mus."

People might take Greek second names or simply have names that could pass for Greek (Esther/Aster) to, well, pass in the larger society.

Ioudas/Judas was a very common name in Alexandria at the time.

[(Anonymous)]

Baby Mus + young Felix = FTW! Both of them are so damn cute n.n
I want to see how Vibius cures hangovers with a bear, btw. =O Does it involve wrestling? *curious*

Nemo

[(Anonymous)]

... or feeding the bear booze AND wrestling with it?!

Nemo

PS: Sorry for the double post u.u' Even copy+paste from wordpad is a complicated thing for me at 1 am these days.

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

Don't his sisters call him "Dawi"? Or am I totally confused?

Also, that young-Felix-baby-Mus panel will never get old. "Cats should eat them"... bwahahaha!

How do you say "gross" in Latin?

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes--he does have that second nickname. And no doubt at least another one from Menander by now. He seems to collect names, doesn't he.

[zeus67.livejournal.com]

"Dawi", that nickname had me fooled. I though his name was more like David (which is a jewish name).

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I'm very partial to the name David, and that would likely have ended up being his name. But it wasn't particularly common in the time and place where he was born--perhaps not even used at all, in fact. That tidbit came up somewhere as evidence against a bit of graffiti in Herculaneum being the name "David." I didn't see the name coming up in the other epigraphical evidence, tomb inscriptions, legal documents, etc.

Which also explains why it took so long for anyone to mention his name. I was still looking for Davids :)

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

"Dawi" could conceivably be a younger sibling's attempt to say "Alexander." My youngest cousin called her older brother "Chach" for "Jeffrey," which makes much less sense.