Note 614 — LIFE OF C. CÆSAR. (continued 2)
George Long translation
M. Æmilius Lepidus, son of M. Lepidus, consul B.C. 78. He afterwards formed one of the Triumviri with M. Antonius and Octavianus Cæsar. This was the Lepidus with whom Cæsar supped the day before he was murdered. He was a feeble man, though something of a soldier. Shakspere has painted him in a few words:
Antony. This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errands.
Julius Cæsar, Act iv. Sc. 1.
There is more of him in the Lives of Brutus and Antonius.