sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2010-04-28 07:11 pm (UTC)

How have I managed to not hear of Gaius Fuficius Fango before now?

He doesn't seem to be well-known; he rates a mention in Cassius Dio and Cicero's Epistulae ad Atticum and there is a debatable emendation to Catullus 54 that might be his name; otherwise no one knows him from Fufluns. I feel this situation should be remedied.

His name -- it's so ... fluffy. It's like the name you'd give to a Roman mascot for a brand of marshmallows.

It's a lot of fun to say.

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