Epidius

Epidius (1st century BC) was an Ancient Roman rhetorician who taught the art of oratory towards the close of the republic, numbering Marcus Antonius and Octavianus among his scholars. His skill, however, was not sufficient to save him from a conviction for malicious accusation (calumnia).

This article is about the Roman scholar. For the genus of spiders, see Epidius (spider).

We are told that he claimed descent from Epidius Nuncionus (the name is probably corrupted), a rural deity, who appears to have been worshipped upon the banks of the Sarnus.[1]

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  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: William Ramsay (1870). Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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  1. Sueton. de Clar. Rhet. 4. (cited by Ramsay)
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