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762 LEPIDUS. LEPIDUS.
after she had lost this powerful piotection, by his distinguished in the state. Finally, it became coideath, in A. D. 33, she was accused in A. D. 36 of nected by marriage with the imperial house of the
having had adulterous intercourse with a slave; Caesars, but disappears towards the end of the first
and as she could not deny the charge, she put an century of the Christian era. The following geneaend to her life. (Tac. Ann. vi. 40.) logical table is in some parts conjectural, but these
LE'PIDUS, the name of a celebrated family of are pointed out in the course of the article. (Comp.
the Aemilia gens, which was one of the most Perizonius, Anismad. Hist. p. 131; Norisius, Cenot.
ancient patrician gentes. [AEMILIA GENS.] This Pis. p. 257, &c.; Eckhel, vol. v. p. 123; Clement.
family first occurs in Roman history at the be- Cardinal. Memonorie Romane di AntidchitS, vol. i. p.
ginning of the third century before the Christian 182; Orelli, Onom. Tull. vol. ii. p. 15; Drumann
era, and from that time it became one of the most Gesc/h. Roes, vol. i. p. 1, &c.)
STEMMA LEPIDORUM.
1. M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. B.. c. 25.
(M. Aemilius Lepidus.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I. 1~~~~~
2. M. Aenfilius Lepidus,
augur, cos. B. c. 232, 220. (M.' Aemilius Lepidus.)
l l 1 6. M'. (?) Aemilius Lepidus,
3. M. Aemilius Lepidus, 4. L. Aemilius 5. Q. Aemilius praetor, B. C. 213.
praetor, B. C. 218. Lepidus. Lepidus. I
I -8. M. Aemilius Lepidus,
7. M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. B. C. 158.
censor, pontifex maximus,
cos. B. C. 187, 175.
(Mam. Aemilius Lepidus.)
9. M. Aemilius Lepidus,
trib. mil. B.C. 190.
l' ~ ~ -. ~I.~ I I I
10. M. Aemilius 11. M. Aemilius 12. Q. Aemilius 14. Main. Aemilius 15. M'. Aemilius
Lepidus Porcina, Lepidus, Lepidus. Lepidus Livianus, Lepidus, cos.
cos. B.C. 137. cos. B.C. 126. cos. B. C. 77 B. C. 66.
13. M. Aemilius
Lepidus, cos.
B. C. 78, married
Appuleia.
16. L. Aemilius Paullus, 17. M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, 18. Scipio,
cou. B. C. 50. triumvir, married Junia. slain B. C. 77.
I I
19. Paullus Aemilius Lepidus, 20. M. Aemilius Lepidus,
Of uncertain Origin. cos. B. C. 34, censor B. C. 22. died B. C. 30.
21. Q. Aemilius Lepidus, married Cornelia.
cos. B. C. 21. |
I I I
[...... 1 22. L. Aemilius Paullus, 23. M, Aemilius Lepidus, 24. Aemilia
25. M'. Aemilius 26. Aemilia cos. A. D. 1, married co. A. D. 6. Lepida.
Lepidus, Lepida. Julia, granddaughter of [
Cos. A. D. 11. Augustus.
l_____________________________ 29. Aemilia
l [ Lepida,
27. Aemilius Lepidus, 28. Aemilia Lepida, wife of
married Drusilla, wife of the emperor Drusus,
killed A. D. 39. Claudius. son of
Germanicus,
died A. i. 36.
1. M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, consul B. C. 285, but his honour funeral games which lasted for three
whose name only occurs in the Fasti. days, and in which twenty-two pairs of gladiators
2. M. AEMILIUS M. F. M. N. LEPIDUS, pro- fought in the forum. (Liv. xxiii. 30.) His first
bably a grandson of No. 1, was augur and twice consulship was in B. C. 232, when the agrarian
consul. He died in the year of the battle of law of C. Flaminius was passed (Polyb. ii. 21;
Cannae, B. C. 216; and his three sons exhibited in Zonar. viii. p. 401, c); but the date of his second