Marepaphias (also ''mar(e)pahis'') was a Lombard title of Germanic origin meaning "master of the horse", probably somewhat analogous to the

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title ''comes stabuli'' or

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. According to

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, it came from ''mar'' or ''mare'' meaning "horse" (see modern English

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) and ''paizan'' meaning "to put on the bit".

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Paul the Deacon Paul the Deacon ( 720s 13 April in 796, 797, 798, or 799 AD), also known as ''Paulus Diaconus'', ''Warnefridus'', ''Barnefridus'', or ''Winfridus'', and sometimes suffixed ''Cassinensis'' (''i.e.'' "of Monte Cassino"), was a Benedictine monk, sc ...

(Paulus Diaconus) , year=1907 , title=Historia Langobardorum , translator=William Dudley Foulke , publisher=University of Pennsylvania , url=https://archive.org/details/historyoflangoba00pauluoft/page/n3/mode/2up

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