Lucius Aemilius Barbula ( fl. 281-280 BC), or Lucius Aemilius Q.f. Q.n. Barbula, was a Roman politician and general from the patrician gens Aemilia. He was elected

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for 281 BC and was given a command against the

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. He invaded the territory of

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, which summoned

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for help. In 280, he was awarded a

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for his victories in Tarentum, Samnium, and elsewhere. T. Robert S. Broughton: ''The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 B.C. - 100 B.C.''. Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprint 1968. (Philological Monographs. Edited by the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, 1), p. 190 Barbula was son of

Quintus Aemilius Barbula Quintus Aemilius Barbula ( 317–311 BC) was consul in 317 BC, in which year a treaty was made with the Apulian Teates, Nerulum was taken by Barbula, and Apulia entirely subdued. (Liv. ix. 20, 21 ; Diod. xix. 17.) Barbula was consul again in 311, ...

, consul of 317 and 311, and grandson of another Quintus. His son Marcus Aemilius L.n. Q.f. Barbula became consul in 230, the third and last successive generations of consuls from this branch.

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*Smith, William
"BARBULA: 2. L. Aemilius Barbula"
''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1870), online version. v. 1, page 461-462 * T. Robert S. Broughton: ''The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 B.C. - 100 B.C.''. Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprint 1968. (Philological Monographs. Edited by the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, 1) 3rd-century BC Roman consuls Barbula, Lucius Pyrrhic War {{AncientRome-politician-stub