Lucius Aemilius Paullus (Battle of Cannae)

Lucius Aemilius Paullus († August 2, 216 BC ) was a Roman consul in 219 BC. BC and 216 BC Chr.

Lucius Aemilius Paullus came from the patrician family of the Aemilians and was a son of Marcus Aemilius Paullus , who lived in 255 BC. Had occupied the consulate. He was pontiff . His first consulate together with Marcus Livius Salinator fell with the Second Illyrian War in 219 BC. In which he defeated Demetrios of Pharos off the coast of Dalmatia . For this victory he was able to celebrate a triumph .

In the following year Paullus belonged to an embassy to Carthage . In the Second Punic War against the Carthaginians, he was defeated in 216 BC. Again elected consul, this time together with Gaius Terentius Varro . He was killed in the Roman defeat at the Battle of Cannae , against which he is said to have spoken out at the beginning. Jakob Seibert describes this as a deliberate distortion in order to blame the plebeian Varro alone for the defeat.

Lucius Aemilius Paullus was the father of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and Aemilia Paulla , who married Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus .

literature

Elimar Klebs : Aemilius 118) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 581.

Remarks

↑ The date of death refers to the pre-Julian Roman calendar .
↑ Livy 22:35, 3. To the magistrates of the year 219 BC See 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. 236 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).
↑ Polybios 3,106.1; Livy 22.34 f. To the magistrates of the year 216 BC See T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 247-253, (Unchanged reprint 1968).
↑ Livy 23:21, 7.
↑ Jakob Seibert : Hannibal. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-534-12029-9 , pp. 158, 189.

personal data
SURNAME	Aemilius Paullus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Paullus, Lucius Aemilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman consul
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	August 2, 216 BC Chr.

[1] The date of death refers to the pre-Julian Roman calendar .

[2] Livy 22:35, 3. To the magistrates of the year 219 BC See 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. 236 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).

[3] Polybios 3,106.1; Livy 22.34 f. To the magistrates of the year 216 BC See T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 247-253, (Unchanged reprint 1968).

[4] Livy 23:21, 7.

[5] Jakob Seibert : Hannibal. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-534-12029-9 , pp. 158, 189.