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

Authorities.—There are lives of Cato by Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch and Aurelius Victor, and many particulars of his career and character are to be gathered from Livy and Cicero.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

However, his appointment was not recognized by Leo, who nominated Julius Nepos.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

In the Ciceronian Age, Varro wrote several books on literary history and the earlier poets; and Cornelius Nepos included in his Biographies the lives of men of letters, among others of his own contemporary, Atticus.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

The large majority of the tyrants, so we are told in Nepos, joined in the opinion of Histiaeus.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max