Lepidus

Also known as: the younger Lepidus · Family: Roman · Role: consul · First appears: Julius Caesar 5

In the civil disturbances, Lucius Cinna was associated with those described as adherents of Lepidus. During the plot against Julius Caesar, Lepidus served as Caesar’s “master of the horse”; fear of Lepidus and Mark Antony led the conspirators to abandon plans to cast Caesar’s body into the Tiber, confiscate his estate, and rescind his enactments.

At Philippi, Lepidus entered a confederacy with Augustus and Mark Antony, and Augustus brought the war to an end in two battles. Afterwards, Lepidus became an enemy of Augustus through a conspiracy against his life. After Lepidus died, Augustus assumed the office of Pontifex Maximus, which he had not taken from Lepidus “as long as he lived.”

Later, the conspiracy of Lepidus and Gaetulicus was discovered, making him an enemy of Caligula.

Relationship record

Life events

• The conspirators abandoned plans to dispose of Caesar’s body, confiscate his estate, and rescind his enactments.(Julius Caesar 82 · 📍 the Tiber)
  • With: Tullius Cimber Marcus Brutus Mark Antony Julius Caesar
  • “The conspirators meant to drag his body into the Tiber as soon as they had killed him; to confiscate his estate, and rescind all his enactments; but they were deterred by fear of Mark Antony, and Lepidus, Caesar’s master of the horse, and abandoned their intentions.”
• Augustus entered a confederacy with Mark Antony and Lepidus and ended the war at Philippi.(Augustus 13 · 📍 Philippi)
  • With: Augustus Mark Antony
  • “Having entered into a confederacy with Antony and Lepidus, he brought the war at Philippi to an end in two battles”
• Augustus quashed conspiracies against his life involving nine named plotters.(Augustus 19)
  • With: Augustus Varro Muraena Fannius Caepio Marcus Egnatius Plautius Rufus Lucius Paulus Lucius Audasius Asinius Epicadus Telephus
  • “He afterwards quashed several tumults and insurrections, as well as several conspiracies against his life, which were discovered, by the confession of accomplices, before they were ripe for execution; and others subsequently. Such were those of the younger Lepidus, of Varro Muraena, and Fannius Caepio; then that of Marcus Egnatius, afterwards that of Plautius Rufus, and of Lucius Paulus, his grand-daughter’s husband; and besides these, another of Lucius Audasius, an old feeble man, who was under prosecution for forgery; as also of Asinius Epicadus, a Parthinian mongrel, and at last that of Telephus, a lady’s prompter; for he was in danger of his life from the plots and conspiracies of some of the lowest of the people against him.”
• Augustus assumed the office of Pontifex Maximus after Lepidus died.(Augustus 31)
  • With: Augustus
  • “The office of Pontifex Maximus, of which he could not decently deprive Lepidus as long as he lived, he assumed as soon as he was dead.”
• The conspiracy of Lepidus and Gaetulicus was discovered.(Claudius 9)
  • With: Gaetulicus
  • “When the conspiracy of Lepidus and Gaetulicus was discovered”

Julius Caesar 5

• with Lucius Cinna (Cinna was an adherent of Lepidus.) “who having been the adherents of Lepidus in the civil disturbances”

Julius Caesar 82

• employer: Julius Caesar “but they were deterred by fear of Mark Antony, and Lepidus, Caesar’s master of the horse, and abandoned their intentions.”
• protégé: Julius Caesar (Lepidus’s influence deterred the conspirators from further violating Caesar’s body and estate.) “The conspirators meant to drag his body into the Tiber as soon as they had killed him; to confiscate his estate, and rescind all his enactments; but they were deterred by fear of Mark Antony, and Lepidus, Caesar’s master of the horse, and abandoned their intentions.”

Augustus 13

• friends with Augustus “Having entered into a confederacy with Antony and Lepidus, he brought the war at Philippi to an end in two battles”
• friends with Mark Antony “Having entered into a confederacy with Antony and Lepidus, he brought the war at Philippi to an end in two battles”
• with Augustus (They entered into a political and military confederacy.) “Having entered into a confederacy with Antony and Lepidus, he brought the war at Philippi to an end in two battles, although he was at that time weak, and suffering from sickness.”

Augustus 19

• enemies with Augustus “He afterwards quashed several tumults and insurrections, as well as several conspiracies against his life, which were discovered, by the confession of accomplices, before they were ripe for execution; and others subsequently. Such were those of the younger Lepidus, of Varro Muraena, and Fannius Caepio; then that of Marcus Egnatius, afterwards that of Plautius Rufus, and of Lucius Paulus, his grand-daughter’s husband; and besides these, another of Lucius Audasius, an old feeble man, who was under prosecution for forgery; as also of Asinius Epicadus, a Parthinian mongrel, and at last that of Telephus, a lady’s prompter;”

Claudius 9

• enemies with Caligula “When the conspiracy of Lepidus and Gaetulicus was discovered, being sent with some other deputies into Germany, to congratulate the emperor upon the occasion”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.