Nepos

American  

[nee-pos, nep-os] / ˈni pɒs, ˈnɛp ɒs /

noun

1. Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c., Roman biographer and historian.

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Nepos British  

/ ˈniːpɒs /

noun

1. Cornelius. ?100–?25 _bc , Roman historian and biographer; author of De Viris illustribus

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Example Sentences

Itaque monear ut dis-cipuli legant, non Shakespeare, sed Caesar, Nepos, aut Vergil discere English grammarem et compositatem.

From Time Magazine Archive

These prologues were among the original sources of Suetonius: but he quotes or refers to the works of various grammarians and antiquarians—Porcius Licinus, Volcatius Sedigitus, Santra, Nepos, Fenestella, Q. Cosconius—as his authorities.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

Nepos fled by sea from Ravenna in August, 475, and betook himself to Salona, whither he had banished Glycerius.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

They were translated into French, not from Probus but from C. Nepos.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.

Among his friends, he ranked not only most men of pleasure and fashion in Rome, but many of her eminent literary and political characters, as Cornelius Nepos, Cicero, and Asinius Pollio.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John