(some points about late Roman Nomenclature)

A transformation to weird -fancy looking long names among the aristocracy- started in the Augustan age.

cf.

Imp. Caesar Divi f. Augustus

Africanus Fabius Maximus

Later it became customary to put another name behind your own -for exaple the name of the maternal grandfather.

M. Iunius Silanus Lutatius Catulus


I´ve named my two characters with good degenarate nobility names -ofcource its highly unlikely that any Fabii were alive in this epoch.

Paullus Fabius Valerius Corvinus, the cognomen "Paullus" -boasting descent in a direct male line from Aemilius Paullus- had been employed as praenomen by Fabii from the Augustan age onwards. As for Valerius Corvinus, this boasts maternal descent from the great Messalla Corvinus.

Persicus Fabius Aemilius Numantinus, the extravagant cognomen "Persicus" boasts Aemilius Paullus´ victory over Perseus, King of Macedonia. As for Aemilius, that too boasts descent from Macedonicus. Numantinus signifies descent -or atlest kinship- with Scipio Aemilianus, conquer of Numantia.

huh, long post