Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus
Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus († 34 AD) was a Roman senator , poet and orator and, probably in 21 AD, a suffect consul .
Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus was a grandson of the younger Marcus Aemilius Scaurus and the last male member of his family branch , the Aemilii Scauri .
He is mentioned several times in the annals of Tacitus : for example, shortly after Tiberius took office , he annoyed the emperor in a Senate meeting. Tacitus also calls Scaurus a respected speaker.
In his first marriage, Scaurus was married to Aemilia Lepida , a descendant of Sulla and Pompeius , with whom he had a daughter. She was accused of various offenses, including adultery, by her first husband Publius Sulpicius Quirinius in AD 20 , but was defended by her brother Manius Aemilius Lepidus . Eventually the Senate found her guilty and banished her. In AD 22, when she was proven to have murdered her first husband by interrogating her slaves under torture and she was banished, Scaurus also disowned her and married Sextia, the widow of his half-brother Lucius Cornelius Sulla .
32 n. Chr. Was he along with several other related to the fall of Seian because maiestas accused, but Tiberius gave up a process. Two years later he was charged again, this time on the basis of a few verses in a tragedy he wrote , which his opponent, the Praetorian prefect Macro , interpreted as an insult to the emperor. Scaurus' accusers Cornelius and Servilius turned it into sorcery and adultery with a Livia. Scaurus committed suicide with his wife.
literature
- Paul von Rohden : Aemilius 139) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 583 f.
- Steven H. Rutledge: Imperial Inquisitions. Prosecutors and informants from Tiberius to Domitian . Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-23700-9 , pp. 186-188 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Tacitus: Annals 1, 13, 4.
- ↑ Tacitus: Annals 3, 31, 3-4.
- ↑ Tacitus: Annals 3, 22-23.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals 6, 9, 3-4; Cassius Dio , 58, 24, 3-5.
- ↑ It could have been Livia Iulia .
- ^ Tacitus Annalen 6, 29, 3–4 ( English translation ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aemilius Scaurus, Mamercus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scaurus, Mamercus aemilius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman senator, poet and orator, suffect consul 21 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 34 |