Septimus
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About Septimus
Septimus is one of the more dashing of the birth-order Latin number names that were revived by the Victorians. So even if you don't anticipate son number 7, you might be bold enough to consider this relic, certainly preferable to sixth-son name Sextus.
Septimus was popularized by the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus, a patron of arts and letters. There was a Septimus in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, in Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and in Trollope's Barchester novels. Probably it is most familiar to modern readers as one of the principal characters in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and as Harry Potter wizard, Septimus Weasley. There is also Septimus Heap, a series of bestselling fantasy novels by Angie Sage.
Pronounced SEP-ti-mus.
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Septimus on lists
Famous Septimuss
- Septimus Severus
Roman emperor
- Lucius Septimus Bassianua
Roman emperor known as Caracalla
- Publius Septimus Geta
Roman emperor
- Henry Septimus Sutton
English journalist and temperance activist, known as a religious poet
Septimus in pop culture
- Septimus Heap
book series and its main character
- Septimus Weasley
character in the Harry Potter series
- Septimus
friend to Alcander in The Bee (1759,80) by Oliver Goldsmith
- Septimus Harding
central character in Trollope's "The Warden" (1855)
- Septimus R. Podgers
chiromantist in "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" (1891) by Oscar Wilde
- Septimus Small
character in Galsworthy's "Forsyte" series (1906,33; marries Julia Forsyte)
- Septimus Warren Smith
character in "Mrs. Dalloway"
- Septimus Bloor
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Septimus
the seventh son of Stormhold in book/film "Stardust"
- Septimus Hodge
character in Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia"
- Septimus Spratt
character on TV's "Downton Abbey"
- Septimus Signus
a mage who has gone mad in the Elder Scrolls video game Skyrim