Manius Aemilius Lepidus (consul 11)

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Manius Aemilius Lepidus was a

Roman Emperor Tiberius on his deathbed, described him as worthy of becoming emperor (capax imperii), but "disdainful" of supreme power.[2]

Biography

Early life

Lepidus has been assumed to be the son of

Aemilia Lepida
.

Career

After 5 BC, but prior to acceding to the consulship, Lepidus was co-opted as an Augur.[3] He defended his sister at her trial in AD 20. At the trial of Clutorius Priscus, he argued without success that the proposed death sentence was excessively harsh.[4][5] In AD 21, he achieved the pinacle of a Senatorial career, the proconsular governorship of Asia.[6]

Personal life

He had a daughter also called

Aemilia Lepida who married Emperor Galba.[7]

Family

References

  1. ^ Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 7
  2. Annales, 1.13
  3. ^ Martha W. Hoffman Lewis, The Official Priests of Rome under the Julio-Claudians (Rome: American Academy, 1955), p. 43
  4. JSTOR 642891
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  6. ^ Ronald Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls of Asia", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 53 (1983), pp. 192
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Political offices
Preceded byas Suffect consuls
Titus Statilius Taurus
Succeeded by
Lucius Cassius Longinus
as Suffect consul