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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7374358" data-attributes="member: 6683613">You ask "Which Gaius Julius Caesar?", indicating that you are aware there were many. But you don't seem to be aware that one of them was the legendary dictator's father. So either both of them -- as well as all the other men of the Caesar family going back at least to the Punic Wars -- were by stunning coincidence born of Caesarian section, or else there is something amiss about your theory.In short: cognomina were often hereditary, and functioned much like modern family names, identifying smaller family units as opposed to the large kinship units of sociopolitical significance (i.e., "clans") indicated by the nomina.</blockquote>