Sulla (cognomen)

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Sulla (also Sylla , after the Greek transcription Σύλλα) was a Roman cognomen , whose origins long in Etruscan was suspected. In the family of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix it was hereditary; he himself had received it (according to Plutarch ) because of his pale complexion.

Other bearers of the name:

Individual evidence

  1. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sulla*.html#2