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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Lepidus
also: Lepidus
The triumvir and pontifex maximus whom Augustus, after stripping him of power, suffered to live out his life in retirement rather than execute, taking the priesthood only at his death (12 BC).
Reading notes
- On Mercy §1.10 Lepidus
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the triumvir; after losing power he kept the title of pontifex maximus until his death (12 BC), Augustus declining to take it as a 'spoil' from a living man.
- Natural Questions §4.pr.21 Lepidus
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the triumvir, stripped of power in Sicily in 36 BC, fleeing his own mutinous army.