Noctes Atticae

A new form of expression used by Lucius Piso, the writer of annals.

THE two following modes of saying

my name is Julius

are common and familiar: mihi nomen est Iulius and mihi nomen est Iulio. I have actually found a third, and new, form in Piso, in the second book of his Annals. His words are these: [*](Frag. 19, Peter2.)

They feared his colleague, Lucius Tarquinius, because he had the Tarquinian name; and he begged him to leave Rome of his own free will.

[*](Cf. Livy, ii. 2. 3.)

Because,

says he,

he had the Tarquinian name

; this is as if I should say mihi nomen est Iulium, or

I have the Julian name.