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[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 3663

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kelley " <SKTHOMPSON_1 at m...> 
wrote:
> 
> > Lucius Septimius Severus, 145-211 AD, Roman Emperor.
> > this sure sounds like an origin for the word severe to me. ;o]
> 
> (beside the name Albinus, I noticed the name Lucius up there)
> 
> I don't know, but I think that Severus was named from the (Latin 
> version of the) word 'severe' rather than the other way around. 
Just 
> a coincidence that the name suited him so well. A counterexample is 
> the emperor Commodius. His name (related to 'accommodating') means 
> pleasant and easy to get along with, but he himself was a big 
> monster.

Ah.  You're probably right.  So, do you think our Snape's name came 
from severe, or the charming emperor?  Probably both, JKR seems to be 
a very learned lady.

Kelley