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How to use praenomen in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word praenomen? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
They seem to give the praenomen Titus to the same man, and a Titus Petronius Niger is attested as consul on Herculaneum tablets.
As was mentioned above, spouses and lovers generally call each other by cognomen rather than praenomen.
The Lives of the Sophists bears the praenomen of Flavius, which we find nowhere else except in Tzetzes.
A freed slave generally assumed his former master's praenomen and nomen.
The astronomer would also have had a praenomen, which remains unknown.
Examples from Classical Literature
Such a praenomen carries with it suggestions of a rich brogue rather than a nasal drawl.
His person more than justified his praenomen, for Mr. Harper Freeman, Jr., was undeniably fat.
Suetonius, Jul. 76, errs in stating that he used the title imperator as a praenomen.
The name of the month in which he was born was changed to Julius, from his praenomen, and we still retain the name.
He therefore changed his praenomen to that of his adoptive father, and put his former nomen among his cognomina.
The inscription in Caria, formerly supposed to give P. as praenomen, is now shown to have been misread.
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