severus

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Lucius Septimius Severus - family name means 7th Publius Helvius Pertinax - family name means honey-yellow.

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An ancient Roman cognomen, notably that of Septimius Severus.

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noun

An ancient Roman cognomen, notably that of Septimius Severus.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for severus.

noun

An ancient Roman cognomen, notably that of Septimius Severus.

Example sentences

Lucius Septimius Severus - family name means 7th Publius Helvius Pertinax - family name means honey-yellow.

May Bruce Willis find shoes that fit as Nakatomi Plaza is yet again beseiged by Severus Snape.

The emperor Severus followed standard protocol and ordered the death of tens of thousands of people under his reign.

Also, when reading Harry Potter as a kid, Severus Snape always showed up in my mind's eye with the head of a crocodile.

Within the book Satan is a fictional character with the same sort of appeal as Walter White or the Joker or Severus Snape.

We have pretty good clarity that Septimius Severus wasn't racially African.

In 202 AD, Septimius Severus captured the capital city of Garama.

Even now when someone mentions Severus Snape I see him with the crocodile head.

So either Severus was in fact modeling Harry as a one-level player, which made Severus himself two-level, and Harry's three-level move had been successful; or Severus was a four-level player and wanted Harry to think the deception had been successful.

Tu visus potentis, severus, fortis et prudens.

> We have pretty good clarity that Septimius Severus wasn't racially African.

Check out this mural of the Roman emperor Severus and his wife from the 2nd century, and tell me again how there were no black people in Europe as long ago as Medieval times.

Quote examples

Beside him stood Professor Severus Snape, looking > Ok, now have Harry "whip it out" if you know what I mean.

Severus was emperor almost 400 years after the destruction of Carthage and you're saying that Rome "ostensibly" won.

His father (Septimius Severus, the first "African emperor") was of Punic and Italic origins.

Severus of Antioch, the preeminent Miaphysite theologian, was called a "leader of sectarianism".

Proper noun examples

The Four African Emperors were Septimius Severus, Clodius Albinus, Marcus Macrinus and Aemilianus.

Severus Snape could be present as well, overseeing the event as the Potions master and occasional member of the Order of the Phoenix.

If going for visual realism, then obviously a black man would not look the part, since all roman emperors were caucasian (except possibly Septimius Severus).