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Biggus dickus

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'''Biggus Dickus''' is a fictional Rome Roman nobleman and officer in the Monty Python film ''Monty_Python's_Life_of_Brian Life of Brian''. Image:Biggus.jpg John Cleese.html" title="Meaning of frame frame|right|From left to right: a Roman Centurion ([[John Cleese), Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin), and Biggus Dickus (Graham Chapman)..html" title="Meaning of right|From left to right: a Roman Centurion ([[John Cleese">frame|right|From left to right: a Roman Centurion ([[John Cleese), Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin), and Biggus Dickus (Graham Chapman).">right|From left to right: a Roman Centurion ([[John Cleese">frame|right|From left to right: a Roman Centurion ([[John Cleese), Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin), and Biggus Dickus (Graham Chapman). He is married, according to his friend Pontius Pilate, to ''Incontinentia Buttocks''. Like his friend, he has a speech impediment – he lisps. This is a cause of hilarity when he reads down a list of incarcerated wrongdoers, for example, "theveral theditiouth thcribth from Caesarea Palaestina Thaetharea". This is funny not only because he speaks with a lisp but because he is a cruel man who hasn't the slightest clue that he has a speech impediment (apparently everyone is too afraid to tell him). We can assume Biggus to be of patrician descent and hold at least the grade of legatus legate, as, again according to Pilate, he "commands a cwack legion wegion" and "wanks as high as any in Ancient Rome Wome" [''sic'']. Whether "Biggus Dickus" refers to the man's List_of_Roman_cognomina cognomen and/or agnomen or should be taken to mean his nomen and praenomen (i.e. Biggus from the gens Dickus) is debatable. While it would be more appropriate for Pilate, in the formal public settings as depicted in the film, to use his friend's full name, it was common for agnomina, or nicknames, to refer to a physical trait. In any case, the name is obviously meant to be taken completely seriously, as indicated, in the film, by Pilate's treatment of soldiers who commit a faux pas career-limiting move by doubting the name's veracity.

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*Roman naming convention *Gag name Category:Film characters Dickus Category:Monty Python Dickus Category:Fictional Romans Dickus see Biggus_Dickus

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