A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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same year respecting the punishment of C. Lutoriius of his errors, but drew up a solemn recantation
Priscus:; again in A. D. 24; then in A. D. 26, when addressed to Proculus, bishop of Marseilles, and
he was appointed governor of the province of Asia; Cyllinnius, bishop of Aix, while four African preand lastly in A. D. 33, which was the year of his lates bore testimony to the sincerity of his condeath. (Tac. Ann. i. 13, iii. 35,- 50, iv. 20, 56, vi. version, and made intercession on his behalf.
27.) It was this M. Lepidus who repaired the Although now reinstated in his ecclesiastical priviAemilia Basilica in A. D. 22 (Tac. Ann. iii. 72), leges, Leporius does not seem to have returned to
as is mentioned above. [No. 16.] his native country; but laying aside the profession
24. AEMILIA LEPIDA. [LEPIDA, No. 1.1 of a monk, was ordained a presbyter by St. Augus25. M'. AEMILIUS Q. F. LEPIDUS, the son ap.. tine about A. D. 425, and appears to be the same
parently of No. 21, was consul'with T. Statilius Leporius so warmly praised in the discourse De
Taurus in A. D. 11. (Dion Cass. lvi. 25.) He must Vita et Moribus Clericorum. We know nothing
be carefully distinguished from his contemporary further regarding his career except that he was still
M. Aemilius Lepidus, with whom he is frequently alive in 430. (Cassianus, de Incarn. i. 4.)
confounded. [See No. 23.] Though we cannot The work, to which we have alluded above, and
trace the descent of this M. Lepidus [see No. 21], which is still extant, under the title Libellus
yet among his ancestors on the female side were Emnendationis sire Satisfactionis ad Episcopos GalL. Sulla and Cn. Pompeiy. (Tac. Ann. iii. 22.) liae, sometimes with the addition, Confessionem
It is perhaps this M'. Lepidus who defended Piso Fidei Catholicae continens de Mysterio Incarnationis
in A. D. 20; and it was undoubtedly this Lepidus C]hristi, cum Erroris pristini Detestatione, was held
who defended his sister later in the same year. in very high estimation among ancient divines, and
[LEPIDA, No. 2.] In A. D. 21 he obtained the its author was regarded as one of the firmest bulprovince of Asia, but Sex. Pompey declared in the warks of orthodoxy against the attacks of the
senate that Lepidus ought to be deprived of it, Nestorians. Some scholars in modern times, espebecause he was indolent, poor, and a disgrace to cially Quesnel, who has written an elaborate dishis ancestors, bat the senate would not listen to sertation on the subject, have imagined that we
Pompey, maintaining that Lepidus was of an easy ought to regard this as a tract composed and dicrather than a slothful character, and. that the tated by St. Augustine, founding their opinion
manner in which he had lived on his small patri- partly upon the style, partly upon the terms in
mony was to his hofiour rather than his disgrace. which it is quoted in the acts of the second council
(Tac. Ann. iii. 1 1, 22, 32.) of Chalcedon and other early documents, and partly
26. AEMILIA LEPIDA, sister of No. 25. [LE- upon certain expressions in an epistle of Leo the
PIDA, No. 2.] Great (clxv. ed. Quesn.); but their arguments are
~ 27. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, the son of L. Aemilius far from being conclusive, and the hypothesis is
Paullus [No. 22] and Julia, the granddaughter of generally rejected.
Augustus. He wasconsequently the great-grandson Fragments of the Libellus were first collected
of Augustus. He was one of the minions of the by Sirmond, from Cassianus, and inserted in his
emperor Caligula, with whom he had the most collection of Gaulish councils, fol. Par. vol. i. p. 52.
shameful connection. So great a favourite was he The entire work was soon after discovered and
with Caligula, that the latter allowed him to hold published by the same editor in his Opuscula Dogthe public offices of the state five years before the vnatica Veterum quinque Scriptorum, 8vo. Par.
legal age, and promised him to make him his suc- 1630; together with the letter from the African
cessor in the empire.' He moreover gave him in bishops in favour of Leporius. It will be found
marriage his favourite sister Drusilla [DRUSILLA, also in the collection of Councils by Labbe, fol.
No. 2], and allowed him to:have intercourse with Par. 1671; in Garnier's edition of Marius Merhis other sisters, Agrippina and Livilla. But, cator, fol. Par. 1673, tom. i. p. 224; in the Biblionotwithstanding all these marks of favour, Caligula theca Patrum Max. fol. Lugdun. 1677, tom. vii.
put him to death, A. D. 39, on the pretext of his p. 14; and in the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland,
conspiring against him. (Dion Cass. lix. 11, 22; fol. Venet. 1773, tom. ix. p. 396. (Gennad. de
Suet. Cal. 24, 36; comp. Tac. Ann. xiv. 2.) Viris Illustr. 59; Cassian. de Incarn. i. 4; con- 28. AEMILIA LEPIDA, sister of No. 27, and sult the dissertation -of Quesnel in his ed. of the
wife of the emperor Claudius. [LEPIDA, No. 3.] works of Leo, vol. ii. p. 906, ed. Paris; I1istoire
29. AEMILIA LEPIDA, daughter of No. 23, Littdraire de la France, vol. ii. p. 167; the second
and wife of Drusus, son of Germanicus. [LEPIDA, dissertation of Garnier, his edition of M. Mercator,
No. 4.] - vol. i. p.230; the Prolegomena of Galland; SchineLEPIDUS, an author of unknown date, wrote mann, Biblioth. Path. Laft. vol. ii. ~ 20.) [W. R.]
in Greek an abridgement of history, of which Ste- LE'PREA (A'7rpea), a daughter of Pyrgeus,
phanus of Byzantium quotes the first and eighth from whom the town of Lepreum, in the south of
books (s. wn. Teyea, BovOpwTds, IoC'ro0). Elis, was said to have derived its name.. (Paus.
LEPO'RIUS, by birth a Gaul, embraced the v. 5. ~ 4.) Another tradition derived the name
monastic life, under the auspices of - Cassianus, in from Lepreus, a son of Caucon, Glaucon, or Pyrthe early part of the fifth century, at Marseilles, geus (Aelian, V. II. i. 24; Paus. v. 5. ~ 4), by
where he enjoyed a high reputation for purity and Astydameia. He was a grandson of Poseidon
holiness, until he became the advocate of the double (the Schol. ad Callima. lynzn. in Jov. 39, calls
heresy that man did not stand in need of Divine him a son of Poseidon), and a rival of Heracles
grace, and that Christ was born with. a human both in his strength and his powers of eating, but
nature only. Having been excommunicated, in he was conquered and slain by him. His tomb
consequence of these doctrines, he betook himself was believed to exist at Phigalia. (Athen. x.
to Africa, where he became familiar with Aurelius p. 411, &c.; Paus. 1. c.; Eustath. ad Hom. p.
and St. Augustine, by whose instructions he pro- 1523.) [L. S.]
fited so much, that he not only became convinced LEPREUS. [LEPREA.].