Marcus Aemilius Lepidus 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
Denarius of 42 BC depicting Lepidus, aged about 47. The inscription reads III v(ir) r(ei) p(ublicae) c(onstituendae) Lepidus pont(ifex) max(imus), meaning "Triumvir for the regulation of the republic, Lepidus, Pontifex maximus".
Aureus of Lepidus, c. 42 BC
Lepidus (right) browbeaten by Antony and Octavian. Illustration to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by H. C. Selous.
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 fo
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…Marcus Aemilius Lepidus ( ; c. 89 BC – late 13 or early 12 BC) 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…
A 19th century depiction by Jean-Léon Gérôme of Caesar's corpse and the assassins' celebration.
Fragments of the laudatio Turiae, a eulogy for an upper class Roman wife, the latter of whom rescued her husband during the triumviral proscriptions, dated to the last decade of the 1st century BC
Coin, minted by Marcus Junius Brutus in 42 BC, depicting himself on left and commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March on right.
Coin depicting Lucius Antonius.