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154 PAULUS. PATTLUS.
STEMMA AEMILIORUM PAULORUM.
1. M. Aemilius Paulus,
cos. B. C. 302.
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2. M. Aemilius Paulus,
cos. B. c. 255.
3. L. Aemilius Paulus,
COS. B.C. 219, 216.
Fell at Cnnaiae.
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4. L. Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, Aemilia, married P.
COs. B.C. 182, 168. Died B.C. Cornelius Scipio Afri160. Married Papiria, daughter canus major. [See
of C. papirius Maso, cos. B. C. AEmILIA, No. 2.]
231.
I I 1 I
Elder son, adopted by Younger son, adopted Aemilia Prima, Aemilia Secunda,
Q. Fabius Maximus, by P. Cornelius Scipio, married Q. married M. Porcius
became Q. Fabius the son of Scipio Afri- Aelius Tu- Cato, the son of
Maximus Aemilianus. canus major, became bero. M. Porcius Cato,
[See MAXIMuS, FA- P. Cornelius Scipio the Censor.
BIus, No. 8.] Africanus minor.
[SCSPIO.]
of the soldiers offered him his horse. The heroism was exposed on his conquest of Macedonia. His
of his death is sung by Horace (Carm. i. 12): — name is first mentioned in B. C. 194, when he was
6" animaeque magnae appointed one of the three commissioners for foundProdigum Paulum superante Poeno ing a colony at Croton. Two years afterwards,
Gratus insigni referam CamPena" B. C. 1]92, he was elected curule aedile with M.
Aemilius Lepidus, and possessed already so high
(Comp. Liv. xxii. 35-49; Polyb. iii. 107-116.) a reputation that he carried his election against
Paulus was one of the Pontifices (Liv. xxiii. 21). twelve competitors, all of whom are said to have
He was throughout his life a staunch adherent of obtained the consulship afterwards. His aedilethe aristocracy, and was raised to his second con- ship was distinguished for the zeal with which he
sulship by the latter party to counterbalance the prosecuted the pecuarii. In the following year,
influence of the plebeian Terentius Varro. He B. C. 191, he was praetor, and obtained Further
maintained all the hereditary principles of his Spain as his province, whither he went with the
party, of which we have an instance in the circum- title of proconsul. Here he had to carry on war
stance related by Valerius Maximus. The senate with the Lusitani. At first he was unsuccessful,
always looked with suspicion upon the introduction being defeated near Lyco, a town of the Bastetani,
of any new religious rites into the city, and ac- with a loss of 6000 of his men; but he subsecordingly gave orders in the (first) consulship of quently retrieved this misfortune by gaining a
Paulus for the destruction of the shrines of Isis great victory over the enemy, by which Spain was
and Serapis, which had been erected at Rome. for a time rendered more tranquil. He returned
But when no workman dared touch the sacred to Rome in B.c. 189, and shortly afterwards bebuildings the consul threw aside his praetexta, or came a candidate for the consulship. Several
robe of office, seized a hatchet, and broke the doors times, however, did he sue in vain for this honour
of one of the temples. (Val. Max. i. 3. ~ 3). (comp. Liv. xxxix. 32; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 56)
4. L. AEMeILuvs L. F. M. N. PAULUS, after- and it was not till B. c. 182 that he obtained the
wards surnamed MACEDONICUS. was the son of consulship along with Cn. Baebius Tamphilus. In
No. 3, and the most distinguished member of his the following year, B. c. 181, Paulus was sent
family. He was born about B. C. 230 or 229, against the Ingauni, a Ligurian people, who possince at the time of his second consulship, B. C. 168, sessed a considerable naval power, with which they
he was upwards of sixty years of age. He was one were in the habit of plundering the nmerchantof the best specimens of the high Roman nobles. vessels as far as the Atlantic. These people he
He inherited all the aristocratical prejudices of his entirely subdued, razed their fortifications, and
father, would not condescend to court and flatter carried off their shipping; and in consequence of
the people for the offices of the state, maintained his success he obtained a triumph on his return to
with strictness severe discipline in the army, was Rome.
deeply skilled in the lore of the augurs, to whose For the next thirteen years Aemilius Pasulus
college he belonged, and maintained throughout lived quietly at Rome, devoting most of his time
life a pure and unspotted character, notwith- to the education of his children. During the latter
standing the temptations to which his integrity part of this time Rome was at war with Perseus,