Roman Adoption

When a Roman man was adopted into another family (a usual event, due to the small amount of children most families had), his name would become the adopted fathers full name, plus his own family name in a declined form. Examples follow:
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Augustus), born in the Octavii family, adopted by Julius Caesar
Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus (Princeps senatus in the 1st century BC), born as the son of a Livius, adopted into the Aemilii Lepidii.
Definition and Description


The act of adoption is the conclusion of any action by which any person, usually a son, is brought into a new family relationship where he now has new privileges and responsibilities as a member of the family, and at the same time loses all previous rights and is divested of the previous duties of his former family relationship. The Church Age believer has been removed from the cosmic system as a child of the devil and has been placed as an adult son into the royal family of God, of wh...