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Lepidus

[lep-i-duhs]

noun

  1. Marcus Aemilius died 13 b.c., Roman politician: member of the second triumvirate.



Lepidus

/ ˈlɛpɪdəs /

noun

  1. Marcus Aemilius (ˈmɑːkəs iːˈmɪlɪəs). died ?13 bc , Roman statesman: formed the Second Triumvirate with Octavian (later Augustus) and Mark Antony

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And while Alfred Walker and Hadleigh Adams are both firm as aides to the Roman rulers, the bass-baritone Philip Skinner, as Lepidus, is alone in the cast in his ability to sing both richly and with perfectly intelligible diction.

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Ciao, Lepidus, it’s time for Octavian and Mark Antony to battle out the rest of this one.

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It is in this sense that the authors describe T. lepidus as a 'living' cellular automaton.

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In one species of lizard, Timon lepidus, the colour and pattern of its scales evolve in a manner akin to a discrete rule-based computation called a cellular automaton.

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The authors follow this convention, but with a key difference: they show that the boundaries between T. lepidus scales constrict during morphogenesis, and argue that this creates partial barriers to the diffusion of cells and chemicals between adjoining scales.

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