In Latin, Caius is an archaic spelling of the Latin

praenomen The praenomen (; plural: praenomina) was a first name chosen by the parents of a Ancient Rome, Roman child. It was first bestowed on the ''dies lustricus'' (day of lustration), the eighth day after the birth of a girl, or the ninth day after the ...

Gaius Gaius, sometimes spelled Caius, was a common Latin praenomen; see Gaius (praenomen). People * Gaius (biblical figure) (1st century AD) *Gaius (jurist) (), Roman jurist * Gaius Acilius * Gaius Antonius * Gaius Antonius Hybrida * Gaius Asinius Gal ...

, pronounced /ga:ius/. In early

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

, the letter C was used for both /g/ and /k/; and the names Gaius and Gnaeus were spelt Caius and Cnaius and continued to be so in inscriptions, after the letter G was introduced, and C was confined to the /k/ sound. Notably, the name of Gaius Iulius Caesar is abbreviated CIC. In English, Caius is a latinized spelling of the last name of John Keys of

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and ...

. Caius may refer to:

People

Given name

Ancient world

Pope Caius Pope Caius (died 22 April 296), also called Gaius, was the bishop of Rome from 17 December 283 to his death in 296. Little information on Caius is available except that given by the ''Liber Pontificalis'', which relies on a legendary account of ...

(died 296), Bishop of Rome and martyr * Caius (bishop of Milan), bishop of Milan in the early 3rd-century, saint * Caius (presbyter), early 3rd century Christian writer * Caius Largennius (died c. 50), Roman legionary

Modern era

Caius of Korea Caius of Korea (1571 in Korea – 15 November 1624 in Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan) is the 128th of the 205 Catholic Church, Catholic Martyrs of Japan beatified by Pope Pius IX on 7 July 1867, after he had canonized the Twenty-six Ma ...

(1571–1624), Catholic missionary, one of the

Martyrs of Japan The were Christians, Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed, mostly during the Tokugawa shogunate period in the 17th century. The Japanese saw the rituals of the Christians causing people to pray, close their eyes w ...

* Caius Brediceanu (1879–1953), Romanian politician and diplomat *

Caius Gabriel Cibber Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700) was a Danish sculptor, who enjoyed great success in England, and was the father of the actor, author and poet laureate Colley Cibber. He was appointed "carver to the king's closet" by William III. Biograp ...

(1630–1700), Danish sculptor * Caius Iacob (1912–1992), Romanian mathematician and politician * Caius Lungu (born 1989), Romanian footballer *

Caius Novac Caius Novac (born 17 August 1921, date of death unknown) was a Romanian football defender. On 21 November 1948 he played in the first ever CSCA București – Dinamo București derby. International career Novac made one appearance at internat ...

(1821–?), Romanian footballer * Caius Welcker (1885–1939), Dutch footballer

Surname

Jean Ferdinand Caius Jean Ferdinand Caius (17 January 1877 – 27 July 1944) was a French Jesuit priest in India who taught botany and conducted pharmacological studies on medicinal and toxic plants as well as on snake and scorpion venoms in India. He also served on t ...

(1877–1944), French botanist and naturalist who worked in India *

John Caius the Elder John Caius ( 1480), also known as John Kay and John Caius the Elder, was an English poet. Kay was the English translator of the ''Siege of Rhodes'', an account of the unsuccessful Ottoman Siege of Rhodes (1480), assault on Rhodes in 1480. The orig ...

(), English poet *

John Caius John Caius (born John Kays ; 6 October 1510 – 29 July 1573), also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Scholar and physician to Edward VI and Mary I ...

(1510–1573), English physician and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge * Thomas Caius (died 1572), English academic and administrator, Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford

Fictional characters

In Shakespeare's plays

*Caius, in the play ''

King Lear ''The Tragedy of King Lear'', often shortened to ''King Lear'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his ...

'', the name that the Earl of Kent takes when in disguise *Caius, the protagonist in ''

Coriolanus ''Coriolanus'' ( or ) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus. Shakespeare worked on it during the same ...

'' *Caius Lucius, Roman ambassador and later general in ''

Cymbeline ''Cymbeline'' (), also known as ''The Tragedie of Cymbeline'' or ''Cymbeline, King of Britain'', is a play by William Shakespeare set in British Iron Age, Ancient Britain () and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concer ...

'' *Doctor Caius, a French doctor in ''

The Merry Wives of Windsor ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' or ''Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a ref ...

'' *Caius, a casual nomer used in Camus’ play “Caligula” to refer to the tyrannical emperor of the same name.

Other

*Caius, in ''

Sir John in Love ''Sir John in Love'' is an opera in four acts by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The libretto, by the composer himself, is based on Shakespeare's ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' and supplemented with texts by Philip Sidney, Thomas Mi ...

'', a 1929 English opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on Shakespeare's ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' *Caius, in the book '' The Skystone'' by Jack Whyte *Caius, in the ''

Twilight Twilight is daylight illumination produced by diffuse sky radiation when the Sun is below the horizon as sunlight from the upper atmosphere is scattered in a way that illuminates both the Earth's lower atmosphere and also the Earth's surf ...

'' series by Stephenie Meyer *Caius Ballad, the main antagonist in the video game ''

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a 2011 role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was released in 2011 in Japan and 2012 in North America and PAL regions, and was ported to Windows in 2014. ''XIII-2'' is a direct ...

'' *Caius Cosades, Grand Spymaster of the Blades in the video game '' The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind'' *Caius, in the 1960 film ''

Spartacus Spartacus (; ) was a Thracians, Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who was one of the Slavery in ancient Rome, escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major Slave rebellion, slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Historical accounts o ...

'', played by John Hoyt *Caius Lao Vistaille, one of the protagonists in the

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(and later

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based on it) '' The Titan's Bride'' *Caius Qualls, the main protagonist of the video game ''

Tales of the Tempest is an action role-playing game developed by Dimps and Namco Tales Studio, and published by Namco Bandai Games for the Nintendo DS exclusively in Japan. The fifteenth main entry in the '' Tales'' series, it was released on October 26, 2006. The ga ...