• archon
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    1 年前

    Now that you mention it… he’s indeed called Aristoteles in my language… never noticed the spelling difference in english!

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      Yup. The British did weird stuff to Roman names out of victorian reasons.

      Hadrianus becomes Hadrian, because of anus. They then also shortened others like Pompeius becoming Pompey etc.