From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Aug 20 03:16:10 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id DAA64072 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 03:16:09 -0700 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id DAA28179 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 03:16:09 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-186.look.ca [216.154.53.58]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA97378 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 06:15:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000820055528.00b1c660@postoffice.idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@postoffice.idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 06:09:58 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: Re: Sulpicia Caleni uxor In-Reply-To: <200008200605.CAA10994@umailsrv2.umd.edu> References: <005201c00a46$1027b4c0$77140dd0@t9q0o0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At Sunday 8/20/00 02:05 AM -0400, you wrote: >However, the recipient of the Vindolanda letters from Claudia Severa is >another Sulpicia (Lepidina: in fact, the cafe in the gift shop on the site >is named the Cafe Lepidina). It may be a fairly common name and we may be >dealing with a coincidence. Just for the record, CIL VI has 98 instances of Sulpicia ... Something else worth considering: in response to a question on diminutives on the Latin list, I did some poking around in various inscriptional databases and found that one doesn't get a heck of a lot of diminutives in inscriptions ... they (diminutives) seem to be operating on a 'pet' level (and in other contexts, a pejorative level), but not on a formal level. What I was wondering, however, was whather a diminutive might have the sense of "our little" (e.g. Claudilla = Claudia nostra) ... dm .