Lucius Aemilius Papus (Consul 225 BC)

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Lucius Aemilius Papus was an important Roman politician in the last third of the 3rd century BC. Chr.

According to the filiation in the consular fasts, he must have been the son of Quintus Aemilius Papus , the adversary of the king of Epirus , Pyrrhos . The stations in the cursus honorum in front of the Consulate 225 are in the dark. As the Romans expected a Celtic invasion, he was sent to Ariminum . When he learned that the enemy had invaded Etruria , he marched there in forced marches. Together with his colleague Gaius Atilius Regulus , who had returned from Sardinia , he destroyed the invaders in the Battle of Telamon , with Regulus falling in battle. After his victory, Papus went on a raid against the Boier before he celebrated a brilliant triumph in Rome .

In the year 220 he was censor together with Gaius Flaminius . During her tenure, at the instigation of his colleague, the Via Flaminia and the Circus Flaminius were built ; According to Pliny the Elder , they presented the people with a lex Metilia de fullonibus , which forbade the artificial whitening of clothing. 216 Papus is documented as one of the IIIviri mensarii whose exact tasks are not completely clear - it is probably a forerunner of the IIIviri monetales . The year of his death is unknown; perhaps the praetor of the same name from 205 was his son.

literature

  • T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 230, 235 f., 252, (Unchanged reprint 1968).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Polybios 2.23.5-24.8.
  2. ↑ Polybios 2.25.1-31.4.
  3. ↑ Polybios 2,31,5f.
  4. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 35,57,197.
  5. ↑ Livius 23,21,6: et Romae quoque propter penuriam argenti triumviri mensarii (...) facti . "And also in Rome, because of the shortage of silver, three men were appointed for banking (...)", cf. Adolf Lippold : Consules. Studies on the history of the Roman consulate from 264 to 201 BC Chr. (= Antiquitas . Row 1: Treatises on ancient history. 8). Habelt, Bonn 1963, pp. 95-97.
personal data
SURNAME Aemilius Papus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Papus, Lucius Aemilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 225 BC BC and censor 220 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.