Paullus Aemilius Lepidus

Paullus Aemilius Lepidus[1][2] (c. 77 BC – after 11 BC) was a Roman senator.

Paullus Aemilius Lepidus
Spouses
ChildrenLucius Aemilius Paullus
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Aemilia Paulla
Paullus Aemilius Regulus

Biography

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He was a grandson of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Appuleia through their son Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his wife. His paternal uncle Marcus Aemilius Lepidus served as a member of the Second Triumvirate. He was named an augur in 35 BCE.[3] Paullus served as consul in 34 BC and censor in 22.[2] Paullus was in some way related to a Cassia.[4]

Paullus first married Cornelia (c. 54 BC-16 BC). With Cornelia, Paullus had three children: Lucius Aemilius Paullus (c. 37 BC-14 AD) the husband of Julia the Younger and consul in AD 1; Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (c. 30 BC-33 AD), consul in AD 6; and a daughter Aemilia Paulla (c. 22 BC). Aemilia was married twice: first to Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul in AD 13; second to Publius Memmius Regulus.

Paullus was widowed in 18 BC, the same year Cornelia's brother Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was consul.[5] Not long after Cornelia's death, he married Claudia Marcella Minor, a daughter of Octavia the Younger, sister of the Roman emperor Augustus.[1] The marriage of Marcella and Paullus linked two honored republican houses and tied them closely to the imperial circle.[2] At some point after 11 BC, Marcella bore him a son, Paullus Aemilius Regulus,[6] who later served as a quaestor during the rule of the Roman emperor Tiberius.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b article of Octavia Minor at Livius.org
  2. ^ a b c Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, p. 205
  3. ^ Rüpke, Fasti Sacerdotum, pp. 133, 134.
  4. ^ L.R. Penner (2013). The Epigraphic Habits of the Slaves and Freed Slaves of the Julio-Claudian Households. University of Calgary.
  5. ^ John Scheid, "Scribonia Caesaris et les Cornelii", Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 100 (1976), p. 490
  6. ^ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy p. 111
  7. ^ ILS 949

Sources

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  • R. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, Oxford University Press, 1989
  • M. Lightman & B. Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, Infobase Publishing, 2008
  • Article of Octavia Minor at Livius.org
Political offices
Preceded by Roman consul
July–December 34 BC
with Gaius Memmius
Marcus Herennius Picens
Succeeded byas consules ordinari