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**In Late Antiquity and the so-called Dark Ages, it was especially common for barbarian names to be treated as indeclinable. As this can be problematic, if an alternate, declinable form of the name exists it should be used. Greek sources can be extremely valuable during this period as well, especially when it comes to nations bordering on the Byzantine Empire.

**In Antiquity there is obviously no problem finding names for Greeks and Romans. If you know where to look you can even find classical names for important historical figures throughout the Mediterranean world, especially in ethnographers like [[Herodotus]], Hellenized barbarians like [[Manetho]] and [[Berossus]], or even the extensive papyri discovered in Egypt, and inscriptions as far flung as [[Axumis|Aksum]] and India. Of course all the sources I have named are in Greek, but this presents little problem. Obviously, though, if the name exists in both Greek and Latin sources, the form used by Latin authors is preferable.

**A later form may have become entrenched, supplanting the original. In such cases it may be better to use the established form, making a note of the change (cf. [[Wolfgangus Amadeus Mozart]])

**Quite often, even the author himself will have used more than one Latin form of their own name (e.g. [[Galilaeus Galilaei|Galileo]]), in which case it can be very difficult to chose.

===Coining New Names===

*The rule generally used by Latinists today is to Latinize the personal name (if possible), but to leave the family name unchanged and indeclinable. As a rule, this method should be adhered to for persons of the modern era.