Manius Aemilius Lepidus (Consul 11)

Manius Aemilius Lepidus was a Roman senator in the early Imperial period.

Manius Aemilius Lepidus came from the ancient Patrician gens Aemilia and was a grandson of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus . Since the ancient sources do not give any information about the date of his birth and are also silent about the beginnings and the course of his political career, it can be concluded from his noble origin that he entered the office at an early stage, probably at the earliest point in time . If that's roughly the case, he must have been around 33 or 34 years old in AD 11, the year of his consulate , i.e. around 23 BC. BC, as members of patrician families had the privilege of holding office ten years before the minimum age of 43 years required for other senators. In the year 20 AD he unsuccessfully defended his sister Lepida, who was married to the suffect consul of the year 21 Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus , and whose first husband Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was accused of adultery. In the years 21/22 he was proconsul in the province of Asia , although one of his opponents, Sextus Pompeius , wanted to prevent this.

Aemilius Lepidus also held the religious office of augur .

literature

• Werner Eck : Aemilius [II 7]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 183.
• Paul von Rohden : Aemilius 63) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 551.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL 9, 1456 .
2. ^ Tacitus , Annales 3:22 .
3. ↑ CIL 3, 398 .
4. ^ Tacitus, Annales 3, 32, 2.
5. ↑ CIL 3, 398 = inscriptions from Pergamon 635 .