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Lepidus

Roman politician and general

"Marcus Aemilius Lepidus" redirects here. For other uses, see Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (disambiguation).

For other uses, see Lepidus (disambiguation).

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (; c. 89 BC – late 13 or early 12 BC)^[2] was a Roman general and statesman who formed the Second Triumvirate alongside Octavian and Mark Antony during the final years of the Roman Republic. Lepidus had previously been a close ally of Julius Caesar. He was also the last pontifex maximus before the Roman Empire, and (presumably) the last interrex and magister equitum to hold military command.^[3]

Though he was an able military commander and proved a useful partisan of Caesar, Lepidus has always been portrayed as the least influential member of the Triumvirate. He typically appears as a marginalised figure in depictions of the events of the era, most notably in Shakespeare's plays. While some scholars have endorsed this view, others argue that the evidence is insufficient to discount the distorting effects of propaganda by his opponents,

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Lepidus

The triumvir, younger son of another Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 78, who agitated against Sulla's settlement and marched on Rome). As praetor 49 bc, he supported Julius Caesar, then governed Hither Spain (48–7), intervening in the dissensions in Further Spain and returning to triumph. He was consul (46) and Caesar's ‘master of the horse’ (lieutenant and deputy of a dictator) (46–44). On Caesar's death he gave armed support to Mark Antony, who in return contrived his appointment as pontifex maximus (the most prominent and influential member of the four colleges of priests) in Caesar's place. He then left to govern the provinces assigned him by Caesar, Gallia Narbonensis and Hither Spain. When, after the war of Mutina, Antony retreated into Gaul, Lepidus assured Cicero of his loyalty to the republic but on 29 May 43 joined forces with Antony and was declared a public enemy by the senate. At Bononia (modern Bologna) in October he planned the Triumvirate with Antony and Octavian (see AUGUSTUS), accepting Further Spain with his existing provinces as his share of the empi

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Second Triumvirate

Roman political organisation (43–32 BC)

This article is about the magistracy in the Roman Republic. For the 19th-century Argentine alliance, see Second Triumvirate (Argentina).

Coins of the triumvirs (Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus), bearing the inscription III vir R P C (triumvir rei publicae constituendae).

The Second Triumvirate was an extraordinary commission and magistracy created at the end of the Roman republic for Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian to give them practically absolute power. It was formally constituted by law on 27 November 43 BC with a term of five years; it was renewed in 37 BC for another five years before expiring in 32 BC. Constituted by the lex Titia, the triumvirs were given broad powers to make or repeal legislation, issue judicial punishments without due process or right of appeal, and appoint all other magistrates. The triumvirs also split the Roman world into three sets of provinces.

The triumvirate, formed in the aftermath of a conflict between Antony and the senate, emerged as a force to