Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 1)
Lucius Aemilius Paullus (born before 29 BC – 14 AD) was the son of
Biography
He is first mentioned in the elegy of his mother Cornelia's death in the same year her brother became consul. This year has been argued to be 18 BC[1] and 16 BC.[2]
He was brought up by his father, Paullus Aemilius Lepidus. Sometime after 13 BC, this elder Paullus married Claudia Marcella Minor, who herself was a widow with a small child. The early career of the younger Paullus is unknown, his first and only known post being that of consul in 1 AD as the colleague of his brother-in-law, Gaius Caesar.[3] He is also known to have been a member of the Arval Brethren.[4]
According to ancient historians, his wife Julia was exiled in 8 AD for having an affair with a senator. Paullus himself was executed as a conspirator in a plot to assassinate Augustus at some point between 1 and 14.[5]
He probably only had one child by his wife, a girl named
Notes
- ^ John Scheid, "Scribonia Caesaris et les Cornelii Lentuli", Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 100 (1976), pp. 485-491
- ^ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 249f
- ^ Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 6
- ^ a b Syme, Augustan Aristocracy (1989), pp. 123f
- ^ Suetonius, Life of Augustus, 19
References
- Syme, Ronald; Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford University Press, 1989)
- Suetonius, Life of Augustus