Sura
a cognomen in many Roman gentes, signifies " the calf of the leg," and is one of the many cognomens which took their origin from some bodily peculiarity in the person to whom it was first given.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.