A large proportion of the dedications are made by men of servile origin, and the very name of the Dedicator would often be enough to indicate his nationality.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
And now,'tis not doubted, my lord, but your lordship is under some apprehensions, and the reader under some expectation, that the translator should attempt your character, in right of a Dedicator, as a refin'd wit, and consummate statesman.
"The Blunderer"
Moliere
The second was built by Sulla, but the name of Catulus appears as its Dedicator, for Sulla died before it was completed.
"Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)"
Plutarch