Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus

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Lucius Aemilius (Lepidus) Paullus was a Roman senator of the late republic .

He was the son of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , the consul of 78 BC. BC, and thus brother of the later triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus . Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus first appeared when he was 63 BC. BC charges against Lucius Sergius Catilina . In the following years he also politically joined Marcus Tullius Cicero , who later praised him as a “uniquely decent fellow citizen” (singulari virtute civem) , albeit in contrast to his enemy Publius Clodius Pulcher . Aemilius Paullus was probably a mint master in 62 BC. He was then quaestor in 59 BC. BC (possibly as early as 60 BC) and served under the propaetor Gaius Octavius in Macedonia . At this time, the later notorious Lucius Vettius , an informer in the service of Gaius Julius Caesar , tried to drag him into an affair. He claimed that Paullus was involved in a conspiracy against Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus . At the time in question, however, he was in Macedonia as quaestor. 57 BC Aemilius Paullus supported the demand for Cicero to be recalled from exile. He also assisted Cicero in the defense of Publius Sestius the following year.

In 55 BC BC, perhaps a year earlier, Aemilius Paullus was probably a curular aedile . It is testified that this year he began to restore the Basilica Aemilia built by his family in the Roman Forum . 53 BC Paullus was elected praetor , perhaps because of this demonstrative generosity . Since the elections did not take place until the summer, his term of office only included the second half of the year. With the support of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus , Aemilius Paullus was born in 50 BC. Chr. Consul , together with Gaius Claudius Marcellus . In contrast to his colleague and contrary to what was expected after his previous political appearance, he behaved passively in the tensions of this year before the outbreak of the civil war, since Caesar had bribed him with an enormous sum (allegedly 1,500 talents of silver, almost 40 tons) needed to finance the construction of the basilica.

In the following years of the civil war and Caesar's dictatorship, Aemilius Lepidus Paullus is not mentioned. It does not appear in the sources again until after Caesar's murder, when he was killed in April 44 BC. BC Cicero reported on the political events in Rome. 43 BC He was sent together with two other senators, Gaius Fannius and Quintus Minucius Thermus , as envoy to Sextus Pompeius in Massilia , in order to persuade him to provide military aid against Mark Antony in the Mutinensian War . At this point Paullus was again on the side of the Senate party led by Cicero; in June 43 BC He supported the Senate resolution, with which his brother and Marcus Antonius were ostracized, who at that time were leading independent army commands. After Marcus Aemilius Lepidus had formed the so-called "Second Triumvirate" together with Antonius and Octavian , he had his brother Paullus put at the top of the proscription lists of the Romans who had been declared outlawed. Aemilius Paullus escaped because centurions refused to kill the triumvir's brother (perhaps with Lepidus' approval) and fled to the Caesar murderer, Marcus Junius Brutus . After his defeat and death in the Battle of Philippi , he went into exile in Miletus , which he never left, although (probably after the Treaty of Misenum ) he received the offer to return.

His son Paullus Aemilius Lepidus was a suffect consul in 34 BC. BC and completed the new building of the Basilica Aemilia, which his father had begun.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The sources do not mention this cognomen ; Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 3: Supplement (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 3). Scholars Press, Atlanta GA 1986, ISBN 0-89130-811-3 , p. 9.
  2. ↑ Sallust , Bellum Catilinae 31, 4 ; Marcus Tullius Cicero , ad familiares 15, 13, 1 .
  3. ↑ a b Cicero, per Milone 24.
  4. ↑ Michael Crawford : Roman republican coinage . Volume 1. 1974, p. 441 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ Cicero, in Vatinium 25 . For dating cf. T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 3: Supplement (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 3). Scholars Press, Atlanta GA 1986, ISBN 0-89130-811-3 , p. 9.
  6. ↑ Cicero, ad Atticum 2, 24, 2 .
  7. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 15, 13, 2 .
  8. ↑ Cicero, ad Quintum fratrem 2, 4, 1 .
  9. ↑ Cicero, ad Atticum 4, 17, 7 Cf. Friedrich Münzer : Atticus as a historian . In: Hermes . Volume 40, 1905, pp. 97-98 ( online ). For dating cf. T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 3: Supplement (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 3). Scholars Press, Atlanta GA 1986, ISBN 0-89130-811-3 , p. 9.
  10. ^ Cassius Dio 40, 45 .
  11. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 15, 12 , letter of congratulation for election.
  12. ↑ Plutarch , Pompey 58 ; Caesar 29 ; Appian , civil war 2, 26 .
  13. ^ Cicero, ad Atticum 14, 7 and 8.
  14. ^ Cicero, Philippine Speeches 13:13 .
  15. ^ Appian, Civil Wars 4, 12
  16. ^ Titus Livius , periocha 120 ; Velleius Paterculus 2, 67 ; Florus 2, 16, 4 ; Plutarch, Antonius 19 ; Appian, Civil Wars 4, 12.
  17. ^ Cassius Dio 47, 8 .
  18. ^ Appian, Civil Wars 4, 37.
personal data
SURNAME Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paullus, Lucius Aemilius Lepidus; Lepidus Paullus, Lucius Aemilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION roman senator
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC Chr.