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cognōmen , ĭnis, n. co-nomen.
I. A name added to the nomen (or name of the gens), usu. the third word in order in the full name of each citizen; sometimes followed by a fourth, the agnomen, but in the class. per. including the agnomen, a Roman surname, family name, epithet (e. g. Cicero, Scipio, etc., Africanus, Asiaticus, etc.; cf. Quint. 7, 3, 27; “freq. and class.): T. Manlius, qui Galli torque detracto cognomen (sc. Torquati) invenit,Cic. Off. 3, 31, 112; cf. id. Fin. 1, 7, 23: “duo isti T. Roscii, quorum alteri Capitoni cognomen est,id. Rosc. Am. 6, 17; so with dat., Liv. 2, 33, 5; 32, 2, 7; Suet. Caes. 59; id. Aug. 7; id. Vit. 18; id. Claud. 26; Hor. S. 1, 3, 58; cf. Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 8: “sapientis habere,Cic. Lael. 2, 6: “Augusti,Suet. Aug. 7: “Arabiae felicis dare,Plin. 12, 13, 30, § 51: “Felicem addere,id. 22, 6, 6, § 12: “P. Crassus cum cognomine Dives,Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57: “cognomen ex contumeliā traxerit,id. Phil. 3, 6, 16; so, “ex vero dictum cognomen,Hor. S. 2, 2, 56: “imponere alicui,id. ib. 2, 3, 26: “Aristides... cognomine Justus sit appellatus,Nep. Arist. 1, 2: “sumere ex aliquā re,Cic. Phil. 6, 4, 11: uti, id Clu. 26, 72.—
II. Meton., poet., or in post. Aug. prose sometimes, in gen. for nomen, a name: “cognomina prisca locorum,Prop. 4 (5), 1, 69. so Verg. A. 1, 530; 3, 133; 3, 163; 3, 334; 3, 350; 8, 48; 8, 331 al.; Claud. B. Get. 555; Gell. 10, 12, 6.
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    • Cicero, Philippics, 3.6.16
    • Cicero, Philippics, 6.4.11
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 6.17
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 33.5
    • Plautus, Persa, 1.2
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.530
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 59
    • Horace, Satires, 1.3.58
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    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 7
    • Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 26
    • Suetonius, Vitellius, 18
    • Cornelius Nepos, Aristides, 1.2
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 12.51
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 22.12
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    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.16
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.31
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, 3.27
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 10.12.6
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