Nepos

[ nee-pos, nep-os ]

noun

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

Nepos

/ ˈniːpɒs /

noun

1. NeposCornelius?100 bc?25 bcMRomanHISTORY: historianWRITING: biographer Cornelius. ?100–?25 bc , Roman historian and biographer; author of De Viris illustribus

Example Sentences

Not incidentally, the word nepotism derives from the Latin nepos, which means nephew.

From Slate

Muratorian Fragment, 30, 234 Nepos, the Chiliast, 191 Offering for the poor, 69 Palestine, Origin of Revelations, 195 ff.

From Project Gutenberg

Nobody dreamt of such a solution until Dionysius of Alexandria hesitatingly advanced the conjecture in his controversy with Nepos the Chiliast.

From Project Gutenberg

At length, “by the common methods of discipline, at the expence of many tears and some blood, I purchased the knowledge of the Latin syntax; and, not long since, I was possessed of the dirty volumes of Phædrus and Cornelius Nepos, which I painfully construed and darkly understood.”

From Project Gutenberg

Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos inform us that Lucullus, the Roman General, lost his reason, and subsequently his life, from having taken one of these mixtures; and Caius Caligula was driven into a fit of insanity by a philter given to him by his wife Cæsonia, as described by Lucretius: Tamen hoc tolerabile, si non Et furere incipias, ut avunculus ille Neronis Cui totam tremuli frontem Cæsonia pulli Infudit.

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