Lepidus

Lĕpĭdus, i, m.,

I a surname in the gens Aemilia; e. g. M. Aemilius Lepidus, consul 675 A. U. C., an enemy of Sylla , Cic. Cat. 3, 10, 24; id. Verr. 2, 3, 91, § 212.—Another M. Aemilius Lepidus, triumvir with Antony and Octavius , Cic. Mil. 5, 13; id. Phil. 5, 14, 39; v. his letters to Cicero ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34 sq.—Hence,

A Lĕpĭdā-nus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Lepidus, Lepidan : bellum, Sall. H. Fragm. 3, 63 Dietsch.—

B Lĕpĭdĭānus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Lepidus, Lepidian : tumultus, which broke out a year after Sylla's death, in the consulate of M. Aemilius Lepidus , Macr. S. 1, 32.