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GAIUS

1. Does having "gai" in it make it unusable, even though it's not prounounced like Gaylord or Galen?

2. Will it surge in popularity because of Battlestar Galactica, even though the character is so unsavory? Will anyone care or know that it was also Julius Caesar's first name?

3. In terms of its Latin origin, this is really the same name as Caius. Which do you like?

4. WDYT of the name?

My opinion: I love the sound and the idea of this name, but I don't think I'd be able to shake how pretentious it seems.

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From:

ewaeva.livejournal.com

LOL! :)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that there were some letters that were interchangeable in Latin. So, Julius would also be spelled Iulius, and so on, and U's and V's were interchangeable. In inscriptions we normally see V instead of U and I instead of J. (also because I's and V's are easier to etch into stone? ;) )

I think that Caius was the more ancient spelling, and then Caius and Gaius co-existed... we find the same person's name spelled both ways in different places.

But yeah, even the Romans were Eweneek sometimes! I remember reading in some book that there was a new fad for a while to use "o" instead of "au" - so someone named Claudius would become Clodius. Weird!

From:

mooie-ziel.livejournal.com

You might find this interesting. There really was a guy named Claudius, but for political reasons changed it to Clodius. I don't know if you were reading something on this guy, but it's good to know:

Publius Claudius Pulcher chose to renounce his patrician rank. After gaining the consent of the Roman Senate, and with the connivance of Caesar, he succeeded in being adopted into the plebeian branch of his gens by P. Fonteius in 59 BC, thus becoming Publius Clodius Pulcher. On December 10, 59 BC, he was elected Tribune of the Plebs, an office for which patricians were ineligible.