Quintus Aemilius Lepidus

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Quintus Aemilius Lepidus (Barbula?) (* Before 60 BC; † after 15 BC) was a Roman senator of the late Republic and the Augustan period from the patrician gens of the Aemilians .

Lepidus was a son of Manius Aemilius Lepidus , who lived in 66 BC. Chr. Consul was, and stood when one at Appian relates narrated episode on him in the civil war after Caesar's death, first on the side of the triumvirate . About 40–38 BC Aemilius Lepidus is attested by the legend of coins minted by him ( kistophores ) as a propaetor in the east of the empire, i.e. in the domain of Marcus Antonius . This fits in with the statement by Appian that a "barbula" fought on the side of Antony at Actium and after the battle temporarily fell into slavery until he was pardoned by Octavian, who later became Augustus.

In the year 21 BC After a bitter dispute with his competitor Lucius Plautius Silvanus, Lepidus was elected consul. Together with his colleague Marcus Lollius , he took care of the repair of a Tiber bridge, the pons Fabricius . At the secular games in 17 BC Lepidus is attested as a member of the Quindecimviri college . Presumably he had been a member of this since the time of the civil wars, since he is relatively high in the chronologically ordered list of Quindecimviri. About 15 BC He was proconsul of the province of Asia . His daughter Aemilia Lepida was charged by her first husband with various alleged crimes in AD 20 and banned from the Senate.

literature

  • Patrick Tansey: Q. Aemilius Lepidus (Barbula?), Cos. 21 BC In: Historia . Vol. 57, 2008, pp. 174-207.

Remarks

  1. a b Appian, civil wars 4.49 reports of the changeful fates of a "Marcus" and a "Barbula". Recently, Patrick Tansey, Q. Aemilius Lepidus (Barbula?), Cos. 21 BC , in: Historia , Vol. 57 (2008), pp. 174-207, took up an assumption from the 19th century and identified the two people with Quintus Aemilius Lepidus and Marcus Lollius . Demnäch Lepidus would at least temporarily, the additional cognomen Barbula out that in the early Republic to the gens Aemilia occurred, for Quintus Aemilius Lepidus but not otherwise occupied.
  2. See Tansey, Q. Aemilius Lepidus (Barbula?), Cos. 21 BC , pp. 184-192.
  3. ^ Cassius Dio 54.6 .
  4. CIL 6, 1305 .
  5. Acta der ludi saeculares , CIL 6, 32323 .
  6. Tansey, Q. Aemilius Lepidus (Barbula?), Cos. 21 BC , pp. 197-199.
  7. See Tansey, Q. Aemilius Lepidus (Barbula?), Cos. 21 BC , p. 176.