Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger or Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor (; died 30 BC) was a son of

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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and his wife

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, a half-sister of Caesar's assassin

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. Lepidus was executed by

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, the future Roman Emperor, in 30 BC, as a leader in a conspiracy against him.

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says that his wife Servilia committed suicide after her husband's death by swallowing burning hot coals.

Family

Lepidus had at least one younger brother and possibly a sister. He was likely the son whom his father had once engaged to

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's eldest daughter

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. He sat in the

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and was married to Servilia, who may have been the daughter of the Caesarian P. Servilius Isauricus and

Junia Prima Servilia ( 101 BC – after 42 BC) was a Roman matron from a distinguished family, the Servilii Caepiones. She was the daughter of Quintus Servilius Caepio and Livia, thus the half-sister of Cato the Younger. She married Marcus Junius Brutus, ...

, his aunt.

References

Sources

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historiography, Roman historians by modern scholars. The surviving portions of his t ...

, The Annals of Imperial Rome *

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, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Augustus

External links

* http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0218.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20090416005759/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1877.html Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger 1st-century BC Romans Executed ancient Roman people People executed by the Roman Republic Year of birth unknown 30 BC deaths {{AncientRome-politician-stub