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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3265411, member: 87404&quot;]It was often with Roman emperors to take on formal names from previous emperors when they came to power as a way to associate themselves with the previous emperor. Both Caracalla (his nickname based off the name for a popular hooded cloak of the time, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla#names" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla#names" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla#names</a>) and Elagabalus (his priest name based on the name of the sun god he worshiped, sometimes also referred to as Heliogabalus, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus</a>) were formally <i>Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>There was a lot of power in a name back then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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