Nepos in a sentence

Four memorial inscriptions commemorating similarly named individuals, from the same region and falling within an appropriate time-frame, have been identified: Aelia Nepotes, Aelia Nepos, Julius Nepos, and Nepotes.

Nepos was married to Leo's niece, hence his agnomen of nepos — "nephew".

Patrician rank was granted, but at Zeno's insistence Odoacer also grudgingly acknowledged Nepos' Imperial status, and even issued coinage in Nepos' name.

Also unclear is what role Nepos' ties of kinship with Marcellinus might have played in the acquisition of his agnomen.

Although his successor had been deposed, Nepos never returned to Italy.

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nepos and Didius (or, less frequently, year 656 Ab urbe condita ).

Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal 10 and 11. Hannibal also went on to defeat Eumenes in two other battles on land until the Romans interfered and threatened Bithynia into giving up Hannibal.

Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal 12. main Death (183 x 181 BC) Prusias agreed to give him up, but Hannibal was determined not to fall into his enemy's' hands.

Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades, IV At the same time, Athens's greatest runner, Pheidippides (or Philippides in some accounts) had been sent to Sparta to request that the Spartan army march to the aid of Athens.

Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades, VI Lazenby, p. 56 Since every day brought the arrival of the Spartans closer, the delay worked in favor of the Athenians.

For example, he did not choose a second Consul in order to allow Leo II to be Consul alone for the year 474. Deposition and death In spring 474, the ports re-opened and Julius Nepos crossed the Adriatic Sea to Italy to depose Glycerius.

Gibbon, p. 404. While Zeno told the Senate that Nepos was their lawful sovereign, he did not press the point, and he accepted the imperial insignia brought to him by the senate.

Glycerius probably left Ravenna for Rome to resist the invader; he had a silver coin minted in Rome, claiming himself as Emperor together with Leo II and Zeno, and not recognising Julius Nepos.

However, Julius Nepos disembarked at Portus in July 474 AD and deposed Glycerius without a fight.

However, Orestes proved to be ambitious, and before the end of that year Orestes had driven Nepos from Italy.

However, Romulus' position was not constitutional inasmuch as he had not been recognised by the Emperor at Constantinople, in whose eyes Nepos was still the sole Augustus of the West.

In about 479, Nepos began to plot against Odoacer, hoping to regain control of Italy for himself.

In June 474 Nepos entered Ravenna, forced Glycerius to abdicate, and secured the western throne for himself.

MacGeorge (2002), p42 Although the association of the agnomen "Nepos" with his connection to the Leonid dynasty seems to be fairly clear, the origins of and relationships between all these similar-sounding names, including his father's, are less clear.

MacGeorge (2002), p. 62 Ovida served as the next ruler of Dalmatia for a few months, but Odoacer used Nepos' murder as a pretext to invade Dalmatia.