Ἀηνόβαρβος

Ahenobarbus

Translated by Jennifer Benedict16 Mar 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

5 words

[A name meaning] bronze-beard [chalkopogon].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀηνόβαρβος· ὁ χαλκοπώγων.

Betacode

*)ahno/barbos: o( xalkopw/gwn.

Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
The Greek here (examples in Appian, Plutarch, Strabo and Cassius Dio) transliterates the Latin Ahenobarbus, the cognomen of one branch of the plebeian-noble Roman family of the Domitii. (For six of their members prominent in the late Republic and early Principate see OCD(4) pp.473-4.)