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Aulus (abbreviated A.) is one of the small group of common forenames found in the culture of ancient Rome.
The name was traditionally connected with Latin aula, olla, "palace", but this is most likely a false etymology. Aulus in fact probably derives from Etruscan Aule, Avle, Avile, of unknown meaning.
Aulus may refer to:
- Aulus Agerius or Numerius Negidius (a name for the plaintiff in a lawsuit)
- Aulus Atilius Calatinus
- Aulus Avilius Flaccus
- Aulus Ofilius
- Aulus Caecina Severus
- Aulus Caecina Alienus
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus
- Aulus Cornelius Cossus
- Aulus Cremutius Cordus
- Aulus Didius Gallus
- Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento
- Aulus Gabinius
- Aulus Gellius
- Aulus Hirtius - consul after Caesar
- Aulus Licinius Archias
- Aulus Licinius Nerva Silianus
- Aulus Metellus or Aule Metele
- Aulus Paulinus - fictional governor of Britain in Chelmsford 123
- Aulus Persius Flaccus
- Aulus Platorius Nepos
- Aulus Plautius
- Aulus Terentius Varro Murena
- Aulus Vitellius
Aulus ( or ; ) is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, which was common throughout Roman history from the earliest times to the end of the Western Empire in the fifth century. The feminine form is Aula. An alternative pronunciation leads to the variant spellings Olus or Ollus and Olla. Aulus was widely used by both patrician and plebeian gentes. The name gave rise to the patronymic gens Aulia, and perhaps also to gens Avilia and the cognomen Avitus. The name was usually abbreviated A., but occasionally Av. or Avl.
For most of Roman history, Aulus was one of the ten most common praenomina, being less common than Titus, the sixth most common praenomen, and comparable in frequency to Gnaeus, Spurius, and Sextus.