05-12-2009, 07:33 AM
I think we're at crossed purposes here, David. Names in -anus or -ienus usually do not imply adoption. There are many perfectly normal names of that form -- Jona posted a list earlier. But it seems to have been assumed that, if a person happened to be adopted, he would convert his existing name so that it ended -ianus. Jona has drawn our attention to the fact that, apart from the well-known and often-quoted Scipio Aemilianus, we struggle to find other examples. As I noted above, adoption was normally advertised through other means.