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Author: * Pectinarius Antonius - 3 Posts on this thread out of 348 Posts sitewide.
Date: Jul 12, 2004 - 04:57

I hate to see a damsel in distress! Nepos can mean grandson or nephew (post-Augustan), and also a lot of other things. Here, a literal translation of your quote from Suetonius would be, "by a new will he made the three grandsons of his sisters his heirs".

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