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NEPOS, JULIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 385 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEPOS, See also:JULIUS , the last but one of the See also:Roman emperors of the See also:West (474–475). He was a See also:nephew of See also:Marcellinus, See also:prince of See also:Dalmatia, whom he succeeded in his principality. After the See also:death of See also:Olybrius the See also:throne of the West remained vacant for some months, during which See also:Italy was abandoned to barbarians. Being connected by See also:marriage with See also:Leo I., See also:emperor of the See also:East, he was selected by him to succeed Olybrius on the Western throne, and proclaimed at See also:Ravenna. After capturing his See also:rival Glycerius, who had been nominated by the See also:army in 473, at the mouth of the See also:Tiber, he was recognized as emperor in See also:Rome, Italy and See also:Gaul. The only event of the reign of Nepos was the inglorious cession to the Visigoths of the See also:province of See also:Auvergne. In 475 See also:Orestes, See also:father of Augustulus, afterwards the last emperor of the West, raised the See also:standard of revolt and marched against Nepos at Ravenna. The emperor fled into Dalmatia, and continued to reside at Salona until his assassination by two of his own See also:officers in 48o, possibly at the instigation of Glycerius, who had been compelled to enter the See also:church and had been appointed See also:bishop of Salona. See See also:Tillemont, His'. See also:des empereurs, vi.; See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. 36.

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