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Names also are treated as
accidents of persons; this is perfectly true, but names
are rarely food for argument, unless indeed they
have been given for some special reasons, such as the
titles of Wise, Great, Pious, or unless the name has
suggested some special thought to the bearer.
Lentulus1 for instance had the idea of conspiracy
suggested to him by the fact that according to the
Sibylline books and the Responses of the soothsayers the tyranny was promised to three members
of the Cornelian family, and he considered himself to
be the third in succession to Sulla and Cinna, since
he too bore the name Cornelius.
1 Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Catilinarian conspirator. cp. Sail Cat. c. 46.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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