indessed roscivs

The name “roscivs” I’ve used since high school, where one of my Latin classmates gave it to me. (The “v” is pronounced like a “u”, just as it is in Latin.) I’d always assumed that he’d just made up the name, but in my recent googlings I’ve discovered an ancient Roman denarius with an inscription bearing the name of an “L. Roscivs Fabatvs”:

In case you’re wondering where “indessed”—the other half of my blog’s name—comes from, its story is not nearly as interesting. It came from GPW, a program which generates fake words that look as if they should be words by analyzing the frequency that certain combinations of letters exist in real English words (or any other language’s dictionary you analyze). The stated purpose of the program is for generated passwords that are easy to remember, but I typically use it for generating usernames, domain names, and the like.

Thus was born: indessed roscivs.

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