Biggus Dickus is a fictional Roman nobleman and officer in the Monty Python film Life of Brian. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Life of Brian is a film from 1979 by Monty Python which deals with the life of Brian (played by Graham Chapman), a young man born nearly the same time as, and in a manger right down the street from, Jesus. ...

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 the cause of public hilarity when he reads down a list of incarcerated wrongdoers, for example, "theveral theditiouth thcribth from 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 speach impediment (apparently everyone is to afraid to tell him). Pontius Pilate and Biggus Dickus from Monty Pythons Life of Brian This work is copyrighted. ... John Cleese as Q in Die Another Day. ... Michael Edward Palin (born May 5, 1943 in Sheffield, Yorkshire) is a British comedian and television presenter. ... Chapman in one of his calmer moments Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was a British comedian and writer. ... Ecce Homo (Behold the Man!), Antonio Ciseris depiction of Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Christ to the people of Jerusalem Pontius Pilate (Latin Pontius Pilatus) was the governor of the small Roman province of Judea from AD 26 until around AD 36, although Tacitus believed him to be the... Caesarea Palaestina, also called Caesarea Maritima, a town built by Herod the Great about 25 - 13 BC, lies on the sea-coast of Israel about halfway between Tel Aviv and Haifa, on the site of a place previously called Pyrgos Stratonos (Strato or Stratons Tower, in Latin Turris Stratonis). ...

We can assume Biggus to be of patrician descent and hold at least the grade of legate, as, again according to Pilate, he "commands a cwack legion" and "wanks as high as any in Wome" [sic]. Patricians were originally the elite caste in ancient Rome. ... A legatus (often anglicized as legate) was equivalent to a modern general officer in the Roman army. ... Legion can refer to several encylopedic topics, including: In military history, an organization or military unit: A Roman legion. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that existed in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East between 753 BC and its downfall in AD 476. ...

Whether "Biggus Dickus" refers to the man's cognomen and/or agnomen or should be taken to mean his nomen and praenomen (i.e. Dickus from the gens Biggus) 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 career-limiting move by doubting the name's veracity. This is a list of Roman cognomina. ...

See also

• Roman naming convention