Significatio vocis altellus | Babel Free

Definitiones

an epithet or perhaps cognomen of Romulus

declension-2, masculine

Exempla

“Altellus Rōmulus dīcēbātur, quasi altus in tellūre, vel quod tellūrem suam aleret; sīve quod alerētur tēlīs; vel quod ā Tatiō Sabīnōrum rēge postulātus sit in colloquiō pācis, et alternīs vicibus audierit locūtusque fuerit. Sīcut enim fit dīminūtīve ā macrō macellus, a vafrō vafellus, ita ab alternō altellus.”

Altellus was Romulus called, as if 'high in the land', or because he nourished his land; or because he was nourished by weapons; or because he was summoned by Tatius for peace talks, and he listened and spoke by turns [alternīs vicibus]. For in the same way the diminutive macellus is derived from macer and vafellus from vafer, so altellus from alternus.

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