person
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Lepidus
also: M. Aemilius, Marcus Aemilius
Consul of 78 BC who, after Sulla's death, raised an army to overturn the Sullan settlement and marched on Rome, where he was defeated in 77. His revolutionary speech to the people opens the surviving fragments of the Histories.
Reading notes
- The Histories §Lep.4 Marcus Aemilius, your consul
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, consul of 78 BC and the speaker, who closes by offering himself as leader of the people's recovery of liberty.