Epidius (1st century BC) was an
Ancient Roman rhetorician
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
who taught the art of
oratory towards the close of the
republic, numbering
Marcus Antonius and
Octavianus
Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; he reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He is known for being the founder of the Roman Pr ...
among his scholars. His skill, however, was not sufficient to save him from a conviction for malicious accusation (''
calumnia'').
We are told that he claimed descent from ''Epidius Nuncionus'' (the name is probably corrupted), a rural deity, who appears to have been worshipped upon the banks of the
Sarnus (modern Sarno) in
Campania
(man), it, Campana (woman)
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[ Suetonius, ''De Claris Rhetoribus'']
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See also
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Epidia (gens)
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Ancient Roman rhetoricians
1st-century BC Romans