Epidia (gens)

The gens Epidia was a plebeian family at Rome. The only members to achieve any importance lived during the first century BC.[1]

Origin

The rhetorician Epidius claimed descent from Epidius Nuncionus, a rural deity, who appears to have been worshipped upon the banks of the Sarnus.[2]

Members

• Epidius, a Latin rhetorician of the first century BC, who taught both Marcus Antonius and Octavian.[2]
• Gaius Epidius Marullus, tribune of the plebs in 44 BC, removed, in conjunction with his colleague, Lucius Caesetius Flavus, the diadem which had been placed upon the statue of Gaius Julius Caesar, and attempted to bring to trial the persons who had saluted the dictator as king. Caesar, in consequence, deprived him of the tribunate, by help of the tribune Gaius Helvius Cinna, and expelled him from the senate.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Claris Rhetoribus 4.
3. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History xliv. 9, 10.
4. Appianus, Bellum Civile ii. 108, 122.
5. Plutarchus, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Caesar 61.
6. Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History ii. 68.
7. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum Caesar 79, 80.
8. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae xiii. 15.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.