Marcus Lepidus

Family: Roman · Role: co-ruler with Augustus · First appears: Augustus 8

After receiving news of Sylla’s death, Julius Caesar abandoned plans to join Marcus Lepidus’s political project despite tempting offers: “he abandoned all thoughts of joining Lepidus, although he received the most tempting offers.” From this time, Marcus Lepidus governed jointly with Augustus and Mark Antony, before the arrangement continued with Augustus and Mark Antony alone.

After Mark Antony’s defeat, Marcus Lepidus received him, acting as his patron and friend. Later, when Augustus summoned him from Africa with twenty legions, Marcus Lepidus claimed the principal management of affairs; Augustus stripped him of his command, spared his life after his submission, and banished him for life to Circeii.

While Marcus Lepidus remained in banishment, Antistius Labeo nominated him in the election of a new senate. He was then described as having formerly been Augustus’s enemy.

Relationship record

Life events

• Julius Caesar abandoned plans to join Marcus Lepidus’s political project.(Julius Caesar 3)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “he abandoned all thoughts of joining Lepidus, although he received the most tempting offers.”
• Augustus began governing jointly with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus.(Augustus 8)
  • With: Augustus Mark Antony
  • “From this time, collecting together a strong military force, he first held the government in conjunction with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus”
• Marcus Lepidus received Antony after Antony’s defeat.(Augustus 12)
  • With: Mark Antony
  • “Antony, after his defeat, had been received by Marcus Lepidus”
• Augustus stripped Marcus Lepidus of command, spared his life, and banished him for life.(Augustus 16 · 📍 Circeii)
  • With: Augustus
  • “he divested him of his command, but, upon his humble submission, granted him his life, but banished him for life to Circeii.”
• Antistius Labeo nominated the banished Marcus Lepidus in the election of a new senate.(Augustus 54)
  • With: Antistius Labeo
  • “Antistius Labeo, in the election of a new senate, when each, as he was named, chose another, nominated Marcus Lepidus, who had formerly been Augustus’s enemy, and was then in banishment”

Augustus 8

• with Augustus (Augustus initially shared the government with Marcus Lepidus.) “he first held the government in conjunction with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus, then with Antony only”
• with Mark Antony (Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus jointly held the government with Augustus.) “he first held the government in conjunction with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus, then with Antony only”

Augustus 12

• protégé: Mark Antony (Lepidus received Antony after his defeat.) “Antony, after his defeat, had been received by Marcus Lepidus”
• friends with Mark Antony “Antony, after his defeat, had been received by Marcus Lepidus”

Augustus 16

• rivals with Augustus “one of his colleagues, Marcus Lepidus, whom he had summoned to his aid from Africa, affecting great superiority, because he was at the head of twenty legions, and claiming for himself the principal management of affairs in a threatening manner, he divested him of his command”

Augustus 54

• enemies with Augustus “Antistius Labeo, in the election of a new senate, when each, as he was named, chose another, nominated Marcus Lepidus, who had formerly been Augustus’s enemy, and was then in banishment;”
• with Antistius Labeo (Antistius Labeo nominated Marcus Lepidus in the election of a new senate.) “Antistius Labeo, in the election of a new senate, when each, as he was named, chose another, nominated Marcus Lepidus, who had formerly been Augustus’s enemy, and was then in banishment;”
• patron: Antistius Labeo (Antistius nominated Marcus Lepidus for the new senate.) “Antistius Labeo, in the election of a new senate, when each, as he was named, chose another, nominated Marcus Lepidus, who had formerly been Augustus’s enemy, and was then in banishment”

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