Crossword-Solution: NEPOS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NEPOS | anagram | EPSON, NOPES, OPENS, PENSO, PEONS, PONES, POSEN, PSONE, SEPON, SNOPE |
We have 15 clues for the answer “NEPOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| B. C. Roman historian. | 1 answer |
| Historian of Cicero's time. | 1 answer |
| Intimate of Cicero. | 1 answer |
| Latin for "grandson," from which we get a type of favoritism | 1 answer |
| Nephew, to Cicero | 1 answer |
| Nephew: Greek. | 1 answer |
| Nephew: Lat. | 1 answer |
| Roman historian Cornelius ___ | 1 answer |
| Roman historian of 1st Cent. B. C. | 1 answer |
| Roman historian, first century, B. C. | 1 answer |
| Roman historian, friend of Cicero. | 1 answer |
| Roman people historian | 2 answers |
| historian Roman people | 2 answers |
| ROMAN history | 4 answers |
| Roman historian | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NEPOS (5)
Sack Of Rome By Genseric, King Of The Vandals.—His Naval Depredations.—Succession Of The Last Emperors Of The West, Maximus, Avitus, Majorian, Severus, Anthemius, Olybrius, Glycerius, Nepos, Augustulus.—Total Extinction Of The Western Empire.—Reign Of Odoacer, The First Barbarian King Of Italy.
The empress Verina, studious to promote the greatness of her own family, had married one of her nieces to Julius Nepos, who succeeded his uncle Marcellinus in the sovereignty of Dalmatia, a more solid possession than the title which he was persuaded to accept, of Emperor of the West.
After extinguishing such a competitor, the emperor Nepos was acknowledged by the senate, by the Italians, and by the provincials of Gaul; his moral virtues, and military talents, were loudly celebrated; and those who derived any private benefit from his government, announced, in prophetic strains, the restoration of the public felicity.
Nepos trembled at their approach; and, instead of placing a just confidence in the strength of Ravenna, he hastily escaped to his ships, and retired to his Dalmatian principality, on the opposite coast of the Adriatic.
Nepos had given to Ecdicius the title of Patrician, which Anthemius had promised, decessoris Anthemii fidem absolvit.
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Slate, USA TODAY.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1951–2005).