Lucius Aemilius Paullus (born before 29 BC14 AD) was the son of

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(suffect

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34 BC and later censor) and Cornelia, the elder daughter of Scribonia. He was married to Julia the Younger, the eldest granddaughter of the Emperor

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Biography

He is first mentioned in the elegy of his mother Cornelia's death in the same year her brother became consul. This year has been argued to be 18 BC and 16 BC. He was brought up by his father,

. Sometime after 13 BC, this elder Paullus married

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, who herself was a widow with a small child. The early career of the younger Paullus is unknown, his first and only known post being that of consul in 1 AD as the colleague of his brother-in-law,

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. He is also known to have been a member of the Arval Brethren.Syme, ''Augustan Aristocracy'' (1989), pp. 123f According to ancient historians, his wife Julia was exiled in 8 AD for having an affair with a senator. Paullus himself was executed as a conspirator in a plot to assassinate Augustus at some point between 1 and 14. Suetonius, ''Life of Augustus'', 19 He probably only had one child by his wife, a girl named Aemilia Lepida (4/3 BC – 53 AD), who was betrothed to Claudius until the downfall of her parents caused her great-grandfather,

, to break off the betrothal and marry her to Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, consul in AD 19, by whom she had several children, including

Junia Calvina Junia Calvina was a Roman noblewoman who lived in the 1st century AD. Biography The daughter of Aemilia Lepida and Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, consul in 19, Calvina belonged to two patrician houses: the ''gens Aemilia'' and ''gens Junia'' ...

and Marcus Junius Silanus, consul in AD 46. However, it is possible that he also had a son, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, who was married to Caligula's favorite sister Julia Drusilla.

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References

* Syme, Ronald; ''Augustan Aristocracy'' (Oxford University Press, 1989) * Suetonius, ''Life of Augustus'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Aemilius Paullus, Lucius 754 1st-century BC births 14 deaths 1st-century Romans Paullus, Lucius 754 Executed ancient Roman people Imperial Roman consuls People executed by the Roman Empire