Epidia gens
The gens Epidia was an obscure
plebeian family at ancient Rome. The only members to achieve any importance lived during the first century BC.[1]
Origin
According to Suetonius, The orator Epidius claimed to have been descended from a rural deity known as Epidius Nuncionus, although this name may reflect a corruption in the text of Suetonius. Apparently the god was worshiped along the banks of the Sarnus.[2][3]
Members
- Epidius, a Latin rhetorician of the first century BC, who taught both Mark Antony and Octavian. He was convicted of calumnia.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, pp. 36, 967 ("Epidius", "C. Epidius Marullus").
- ^ a b Suetonius, De Claris Rhetoribus, 4.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 36 ("Epidius").
- ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History, xliv. 9, 10.
- ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, ii. 108, 122.
- ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Caesar", 61.
- ^ Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History, ii. 68.
- ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Caesar", 79, 80.
- ^ Cicero, Philippicae, xiii. 15.
Bibliography
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae.
- Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Roman History.
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Claris Rhetoribus (On the Eminent Orators); De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars).
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch), Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
- Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Civile (The Civil War).
- Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).