Silius
Update: (9/5, 4:15pm)
Since no one has ‘gotten’ it yet, here’s another version of the joke with the same answer:
Baebius
And here are two more, non-Classical this time, with a different, but parallel, answer:
Philip
Charles
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Philip and Charles “The Bold.” Right?
Silly us?
I thought you were looking for “Latin names ending in -ius that sound funny when Anglicized”: i.e., if Livius = Livy, then Silius should = Silly, and, of course, Gellius should = Jelly.
Isn’t that funnier?
Maybe I should have said ‘puzzle’ rather than ‘joke’: it’s in Italics. Does that help with the last two words?
OK – I did think “Italicus” as soon as I saw Silius; but why is that funny?
Bingo! That takes care of the first two, worse than mediocre poets Silius Italicus and Baebius Italicus. What about the modern jokes?
surely you are referring to italicus.
Puppienus (emperor temporally near Commodus)
Surely you’re joking. Surely you’re not sirius about this.