Lepidus
historical figure · 8 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman political figure and member of the second triumvirate alongside Antony and Octavius.
and when finally the triumvirate of Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus was established, Cicero was included among the proscribed, and on December 7, 43 bc, he was killed by agents of Antony.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman orator listed in the succession of Roman rhetorical figures.
then came Lepidus, Carbo, and the Gracchi, and after them such great men down to our own age that little or nothing was yielded to the Greeks.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman figure whose children's misfortune is cited alongside Themistocles's.
Cicero relates that in this manner the children of Themistocles were reduced to want, nor does he think it unjust that the children of Lepidus should share the same fate.
Meditations
Figure cited as an example of someone who clung to life and died regardless.
A homely yet effective help toward contempt of death is to run over those who have clung tenaciously to life.
Letters to Lucilius
Roman figure ordered executed by Gaius Caesar, cited as an example of fortune's reversal.
Gaius Caesar ordered Lepidus to offer his neck to the tribune Dexter, and himself offered his to Chaerea.
On Mercy
A former triumvir and rival of Augustus, whom Augustus allowed to keep his rank and honors for many years despite defeat.
At last his wife Livia broke in upon him:
For many years he allowed him to retain the insignia of a prince, and suffered the office of chief pontiff to be transferred to himself only at the other's death;
On the Shortness of Life
One of the conspirators whose plots against Augustus are mentioned.
While he was pacifying the Alps and subduing enemies entangled in the midst of peace and empire, while he was advancing his frontiers even beyond the Rhine, the Euphrates, and the Danube, in the very city of Rome the daggers of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius, and others were being whetted against him.
De Pallio
Roman figure associated with a mocking episode in Carthage's colonization history.
But to you, after the benefit of an injury — once you were exempted from senility rather than from your eminence — after the obscene omens of Gracchus and the violent mockeries of Lepidus, after the triple altars of Pompey and the long delays of Caesar, when Statilius Taurus set the walls in place and Sentius Saturninus proclaimed the solemnities — when concord brings its pleasure — the toga was offered.