Re: Translation question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 8, 2000, 0:10 |
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Mikael Johansson tleiceiç:
> Gaius Iulius Caesar was of the Iulians (who traced back to Aeneas himself,
> and thus to Venus), of the _branch_ called Caesar due to the voluminous
> hair.
I'd read that Caesar came from the phrase _A caeso mâtrus ûtere_, "cut
from the mother's womb", i.e., born via C-section, hence the term.
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