Meaning of nepos | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a grandson
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2. A Roman masculine cognomen — famously held by:
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3. Cornelius Nepos (circa 110–25 BC), a Roman historian, a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Calullus, and the author of the work De Viris Illustribus
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4. a granddaughter
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5. Flavius Julius Nepos (circa AD 430–480), the penultimate Western Roman Emperor (r. 474/5–480)
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6. a nephew
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7. a niece
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8. a descendant
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9. a spendthrift, prodigal
   declension-3, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Et Tyriī comitēs passim et Troiāna iuventūs Dardaniusque nepōs Veneris dīversa per agrōs tēcta metū petiēre …. And the Tyrian attendants [rush] here and there, and the youth of Troy – and Venus’s Dardan grandson – [they all] in fear seek separate shelters across the fields. (Venus’s grandson is Ascanius.)”

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