But Etruria, despoiled and resentful, rose again for Lepidus against the Roman oligarchy. 1 Lepidus was suppressed. […] Lepidus was the elder man and a patrician as well. Lepidus retained the position of nominal deputy to the Dictator. […] Naturally, it was a piece of political jobbery: Lepidus was chosen. […] Lepidus, through his family connexion with Brutus, might prove a bond of alliance between the Caesarians and the Liberators; and not Lepidus only there was P.