Lucius aemilius paullus death

Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus was born around 228 BCE as Lucius Aemilius Paullus. He was a Roman politician and a famous winner from under Pydna.

He came from an old patrician family – the Emilius family.

It was a family of great influence, thanks to its wealth and connections with the family of the Cornelius Scipio. His father was Lucius Aemilius Paulus the consul in 219 BCE, killed at Cannae in 216 BCE. Young Lucius was also the brother-in-law of Scipio Africanus himself.

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His two sons (out of four) were adopted by great families – Fabia and Cornelii Scipiones.

After completing the required cursus honourum military service, he was successively a military tribune, quaestor, in 194 BCE.

member of the three-person commission overseeing the colonization in Krotona. In 193 BCE he was chosen the curule aedile – he decorated the temple of Jupiter. About 192 BCE became part of the augur college. In 191 BCE was elec