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Prisca
Prisca Prisca has the rare, archaic quality of a name from early Christian Rome — serious, dignified, and entirely free of modern fashion. Characters with this name project an old-world gravity and spiritual authenticity suited to historical novels of ancient Rome or early Christianity, and in contemporary fiction it marks a character whose parents have deliberately reached into the past for a name of uncommon depth.
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