Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Euprepes

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
Various Authors, edited by William Smith

Euprepes

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2231955Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Euprepes1870Various Authors

EU′PREPES, celebrated in the racing annals of Rome as having carried off 782 chaplets of victory,—a greater number than any single individual before his time had ever won. He was put to death when an old man, upon the accession of Caracalla (A. D. 211), because the colours which he wore in the circus were different from those patronised by the prince, who favoured the Blues. (Dion Cass. lxxvii. 1.) [W. R.]

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Euprepes

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