Why, in English, do we refer to certain figures from Roman history by dropping the /-us/ from their names (Justinian, Octavian, Marc Antony, Tully, the Antonines, etc.) and others with their full Latin names ([Gaius] Julius Caesar, Crassus, Commodus, Augustus, Marcus Aurelius, etc.)?
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