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From: derek <de...@pointerstop.ca>
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Subject: Re: Pair (was: quendi clans?)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:23:45 -0800 (PST)
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On Jan 18, 5:06=A0am, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:21:42 -0800 (PST), derek wrote:
> > =A0there were at least two
> > families with the cognomen "Caesar" (naturally, I forget the other
> > besides "Julius"). =A0I'm sure I read that that meant "blond", though a
> > quick google suggests that it didn't
>
> According to Robert Graves in /I, Claudius/, the Caesars were
> etymologically the "hairy ones". =A0Julius Caesar was described in the
> Sibylline prophecy as "a hairy man that is scant of hair".

Right, that matches something I found via google - but Graves is a lot
more reliable!