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praenomen's Usage Examples:

The chief monuments of the period - are certain inscribed tombs at Assifit; it appears that one of the kings, whose praenomen was Miker, supported by a fleet and army from Upper Egypt, and especially by the prince of Assiflt, was restored to his paternal city of Heracleopolis, from which he had probably been driven out; his pyramid, however, was built in the old royal necropolis at Memphis.

Antonia, Claudia ). Male Roman citizens had a praenomen in front of their gentilicium.

Julius Caesar was the first who used the title continuously (from 58 B.C. to his death in 44 B.C.), as well domi as militiae; and his nephew Augustus took a further step when he made the term imperator a praenomen, a practice which after the time of Nero becomes regular.

It should be added that the proper names in the inscriptions show the regular Italic system of gentile nomen preceded by a personal praenomen; and that some inscriptions show the interesting feature which appears in the Tables of Heraclea of a crest or coat of arms, such as a triangle or an anchor, peculiar to particular families.

Pharaoh Marres (Marres being, his praenomen graecized).

The Lives of the Sophists gives the praenomen Flavius, which, however, is found elsewhere only in Tzetzes.

76, errs in stating that he used the title imperator as a praenomen.

By his will the Elder Pliny had made his nephew his adopted son, and the latter now assumed the nomen and praenomen of his adoptive father.

455 by order of Valentinian III., was his grandfather, but these facts do not prove that he also had the praenomen of Flavius.

One editor of his De Consolatione, Bertius, thinks that he bore the praenomen of Flavius, but there is no authority for this supposition.

praenomen's Meaning':

the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome