Paullus Aemilius Lepidus

Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Paullus Aemilius Lepidus<ref name=Livius>article of Octavia Minor at Livius.org</ref><ref name=Lightman-205>Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, p. 205</ref> (c. 77 BC – after 11 BC) was a Roman senator.

Biography

He was a grandson of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Appuleia through their son Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his wife. His paternal uncle Marcus Aemilius Lepidus served as a member of the Second Triumvirate. He was named an augur in 35 BCE.<ref>Rüpke, Fasti Sacerdotum, pp. 133, 134.</ref> Paullus served as consul in 34 BC and censor in 22.<ref name=Lightman-205/> Paullus was in some way related to a Cassia.<ref>L.R. Penner (2013). The Epigraphic Habits of the Slaves and Freed Slaves of the Julio-Claudian Households. University of Calgary.</ref>

Paullus married Cornelia (c. 54 BC-16 BC). With Cornelia, Paullus had three children: Lucius Aemilius Paullus (c. 37 BC-14 AD) the husband of Julia the Younger and consul in AD 1; Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (c. 30 BC-33 AD), consul in AD 6; and a daughter Aemilia Paulla (c. 22 BC). Aemilia was married twice: first to Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul in AD 13; second to Publius Memmius Regulus.

Paullus was widowed in 18 BC, the same year Cornelia's brother Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was consul.<ref>John Scheid, "Scribonia Caesaris et les Cornelii", Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 100 (1976), p. 490</ref> Not long after Cornelia's death, he married Claudia Marcella Minor, a daughter of Octavia the Younger, sister of the Roman emperor Augustus.<ref name=Livius/> The marriage of Marcella and Paullus linked two honored republican houses and tied them closely to the imperial circle.<ref name=Lightman-205/> At some point after 11 BC, Marcella bore him a son, Paullus Aemilius Regulus,<ref>Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy p. 111</ref> who later served as a quaestor during the rule of the Roman emperor Tiberius.<ref>ILS 949</ref>

Sources

• R. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, Oxford University Press, 1989
• M. Lightman & B. Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, Infobase Publishing, 2008
• Article of Octavia Minor at Livius.org