Michael Everson wrote:
> Anyway poor Spurius [...] would certainly have had reason to invent the
> letter G if everyone kept calling him Ruca all the time and he got tired
> of it.
Particularly, as "Ruca" alludes to indecent "ructare" (= to belch), whilst
"Ruga" = wrinkle. (The Roman 3rd names were often descriptive of physical
features, so I guess that Spurius must have had a rather wrinkled face.)
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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