Significatio vocis nepos | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. a grandson
   declension-3
2. A Roman masculine cognomen — famously held by:
   declension-3
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
   declension-3
4. a granddaughter
   declension-3
5. Flavius Julius Nepos (circa AD 430–480), the penultimate Western Roman Emperor (r. 474/5–480)
   declension-3
6. a nephew
   declension-3
7. a niece
   declension-3
8. a descendant
   declension-3
9. a spendthrift, prodigal
   declension-3, figuratively

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“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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