Lucius Aemilius Paullus (Consul 1)

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Lucius Aemilius Paullus was a Roman politician and senator .

Paullus was a son of Paullus Aemilius Lepidus , consul in 34 BC. Because of his marriage to the younger Julia , a granddaughter of Augustus , he had good relations with the imperial family. Probably for this reason he already held the consulate in 1 AD together with his brother-in-law, Augustus' adopted son and designated successor Gaius Caesar .

There is controversial discussion in research about his future life. The prevailing opinion is that Paullus soon fell out of favor with Augustus and was executed as a traitor. This was probably preceded by a conspiracy in 8 AD, which Paullus and his wife are said to have planned against Augustus after their youngest brother Agrippa Postumus - the two older brothers Gaius and Lucius Caesar , adopted by Augustus as successors, had already died - had been exiled to the island of Planasia . Because of the exile of his brother-in-law, Paullus evidently saw himself cheated of the political hopes he had placed in his marriage to Augustus' granddaughter. On the other hand, Ronald Syme takes the view that Paullus was not executed, but only had to go into exile. He refers to an inscription in which a Lucius Aemilius Paullus is referred to as Arvalbruder , whom he equates with Paullus.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Suetonius, Augustus 64.1 .
  2. ^ Suetonius, Augustus 19.1
  3. ↑ Dietmar Kienast , Augustus. Princeeps and Monarch. Darmstadt 4 2009, p. 143 f.
  4. ↑ Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 5026.
  5. ↑ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy , Oxford 1986, pp. 115-127.
personal data
SURNAME Aemilius Paullus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paullus, Lucius Aemilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 1 AD
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century