Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Cleopatra's Children" video.

@dave-in-nj9393 Hawaiian pizza is a disgrace. If you're from Jersey, you ought to know better.
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@braddblk No, but New Jersey, as it is part of the greater New York area, is one of the best places in the country for pizza, regardless of where it originated. If you're from Wisconsin or Florida or California or whatever and you don't have access to decent pizza - and people from outside of the greater New York area generally do not have access to decent pizza - then putting nonsense like pineapple on pizza might be excusable. But if you're from New Jersey, you have no excuse.
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@lancer525 Yeah, I'm right though, layman or not. You were wrong, and I explained your error. No need to be a douche about it.
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@lancer525 Caesar started out as a cognomen, which was indeed a name (Roman naming conventions involved a praenomen - Gaius - a nomen or family name - Iulius - and a cognomen - Caesar). When Caesar adopted Octavius, he changed his name to Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus - making a point to emphasize the connection to Caesar (when Caesar was deified, he added a "Divi Filius" - "son of the divine" to his name). When Octavian became emperor, and changed his name to Augustus, he kept the "Caesar" in there. In fact, as emperor, his name became rather long - he never had a title per se, he just added stuff to his name, including Imperator (emperor). During the principate, all subsequent emperors did more or less the same thing - adding a bunch of stuff, including "Caesar", to their names. Over several centuries, Caesar (and Augustus) developed into titles. And now both are used as names again. Go figure.
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@MGBait ...and I didn't read all the comments and then just went and posted more or less the same thing you just did, down to the correct Latin spelling of "Iulius".
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Manley Nelson He already was Caesar. It was his name, not a title. By the time he died, he'd been made Dictator in Perpetua - dictator for life. It just so happened that his life term got shortened significantly by Brutus, Cassius, et al. who were less than happy about how Caesar behaved as dictator for life.
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