Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, chapter 6, section 31

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[31] This is specially easy with names such as Aper, Ursus, Naso, or Crispus,¹ since in these cases we can fix their origin in our memory. Origin again may assist us to a better remembrance of derivative names, such as Cicero, Verrius, or Aurelius.² However, I will say no more on this point.

1 Boar, Bear, Long-nose, and Curly respectively.

2 Cicero, a sower of chickpea (cicer), according to Pliny (xviii. 10). Aurelius = Auselius, child of the sun (a sole） according to Festus. Verrius unknown.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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