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Anything that tries to shed light on the many amazing features of ancient Roman naming habits, specifically of their daughters, is welcome, actually. A lot of people don't realise that if Cicero, say, had had six daughters they would all have been named Tullia, labelling them simply as the daughter(s) of Marcus Tullius Cicero. And nobody really knows how the Romans coped: Big Tullia, Little Tullia, Tullia Tertia, Happy Tullia, Fat Tullia, Baby Tullia? Seems logical, but there's no proof at all that I'm aware of. (The one daughter he actually had was known to him as Tulliola, which is Dear Little Tullia.)