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Well, it was "IULIUS", if you like to start nitpicking ;) To elaborate: the character "J" was inexistent in Capitalis, which is the then used font face. Hence,

Well, it was "IULIUS", if you like to start nitpicking ;) To elaborate: the character "J" was inexistent in Capitalis, which is the then used font face. Hence, the original way to write his name is with an "I".

Koshkin 5y ago
To continue nitpicking, the letter U did not exist, either, so the the name was written as IVLIVS.