Nepos is a Latin word originally meaning “grandson” or “descendant", that evolved with time to signify "nephew". The word gives rise to the term nepotism.
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It may also refer to:
Cornelius Nepos, a Roman biographer
Julius Nepos, sometimes considered the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
Aulus Platorius Nepos, governor of Britannia under Hadrian
Nepos (Roman governor), during the reign of the emperor Trajan
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 57 BC), a Roman politician
The apocryphal Book of Nepos, written by an Egyptian bishop of the same name
Nepos, a village in Feldru Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania
Jakob Näf, a literary collaborator of Erasmus in Basel
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Julius Nepos (died 9 May 480), or simply Nepos, ruled as Roman emperor of the West from 24 June 474 to 28 August 475. After losing power in Italy, Nepos retreated...
nepotism. Look up nepos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. It may also refer to: Cornelius Nepos, a Roman biographer Julius Nepos, sometimes considered...
Nepo baby, short for nepotism baby, is a term referring to celebrities whose parents have succeeded in the same careers. The implication is that, because...
The Book of Nepos was a 3rd-century Christian text written by an Egyptian bishop of Arsinoe named Nepos, which advocated for a strictly literal interpretation...
Look up nepo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nepo may refer to: Nepo, an orca captured in 1969 and featured in the 1977 film Orca Nepo (language),...
Cornelius Nepos'). At last Dionysius Lambinus's edition of 1569 bore a commentary demonstrating on stylistic grounds that the work must have been of Nepos alone...
power through the usurpation of his predecessor Julius Nepos (r. 474–475 in Italy) in 475. Nepos fled to Dalmatia and continued to claim the imperial title...
details about Nepos are more difficult about which to be confident. The inscriptions of the Frater Arvale record a Publius Metilius Sabinus Nepos as one of...
candidate of their own, Julius Nepos, magister militum in Dalmatia. With the support of Eastern emperors Leo II and Zeno, Julius Nepos crossed the Adriatic Sea...
Nepo Eti Laulala (born 6 November 1991) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Top 14 club Toulouse. Born in Samoa, he represented...
Mark Nepo (b. February 23, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York), is a poet and spiritual adviser who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over...
improbable" that Nepos came from Southern Spain; he notes that the nomen Platorius is attested in Baetica. In the final years of the 1st century Nepos served as...
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos may refer to: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 98 BC) Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 57 BC) Quintus Caecilius...
there, he supported his adoptive brother Metellus Nepos against Cicero and the majority in the senate. Nepos as plebeian tribune had attempted to use force...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Strabena nepos. Wikispecies has information related to Strabena nepos. "Strabena Mabille, 1877" at Markku Savela's...
"Panaxia nepos". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018. Savela, Markku. "Callindra nepos (Leech, 1899)"...
option but to surrender. After Nepos landed at Ostia in June 474, Glycerius abdicated on 24 June 474, in Ravenna, and Nepos assumed the throne. The historian...
Quintus Veranius (died AD 57) was a distinguished Roman general around the mid-first century CE. He was III vir monetalis, tribune of Legio IV Scythica...
Elaphropus nepos is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Trechinae. It was described by Darlington in 1962. "Elaphropus nepos (Darlington, 1962)"...
paying lip service to the authority of Julius Nepos, the previous Western emperor, and Zeno. Upon Nepos's murder in 480, Odoacer invaded Dalmatia, to punish...
Maboloke Nepo Serage (born 14 April 2000) is a South African field hockey player for the South African national team. She participated at the 2018 Summer...
Metellus Macedonicus Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 98 BC) Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 57 BC) Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus...
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