[Verginius Rufus]

Booker T. Washington was originally Booker Taliaferro—he chose to add “Washington” to his name.

[scrabblehack]

I wondered if this passage (Aeneid IV ll. 663-666) inspired the name Taliaferro - my Latin prof thought it didn’t.

dixerat, atque illam media inter talia ferro
conlapsam aspiciunt comites, ensemque cruore
spumantem sparsasque manus. it clamor ad alta
atria:

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