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I'd like to point out that the lack of rhotacism in Caesar need not be a dialectal feature at all; either, the s could have been an original geminate ss that was simplified after a diphthong (long after the effect of rhotacism in the 4th century BC), or if it was always single, the failure to rhotacise would have been regular due to the following r, as in miser (< *mis-ero-) from maereo, maestus (< *mais-), cf. Meiser (1998): 95. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:24, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Virgil and his commentator Servius wrote that the gens Iulia had received their name Iulius from the family's common ancestor, Aeneas' son Ascanius, who was also known under his cognomen Iulus, which is a derivative of iulus, meaning "wooly worm".
Capitalization (which had not yet been invented) is not much of a derivation. Was Ascanius called Iulus or Iulius or something else? —Tamfang (talk) 19:49, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
