Quintus Aemilius Barbula ( 317–311 BC) was

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throu ...

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, and had the conduct of the war against the

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, with whom he fought an indecisive battle according to

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in ...

. (ix. 30—32 ; Diod. xx. 3.) The ''Fasti'', however, assign him a

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over the Etruscans, but Niebuhr (''Rom. Hist.'' iii. p. 278) thinks this to have been an invention of the family, more especially as the next campaign against the Etruscans was not opened as if the Romans had been previously conquerors. Quintus was the first consul in the Barbula branch of the ancient patrician gens Aemilia, said to have come to Rome in the reign of Numa Pompilius. His son Lucius and grandson Marcus also became consuls.

Genealogy

Lucius Aemilius arbula? father of
1. Quintus Aemilius L.f. arbula? father of
1.1. Quintus Aemilius Q.f. L.n. Barbula, consul 317 BC, 311 BC, father of
1.1.1. Lucius Aemilius Q.f. Q.n. .pr.Barbula, consul 281 BC, triumphed Quinctilius 280 BC; son of the first consul in this stirps. He was apparently father of
1.1.1.1. Marcus Aemilius L.f. Q.n. .pr.Barbula, consul 230 BC apparently son of the above consul, became consul 50 years after his father's triumph

References

* Smith, William
''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology''
v. 1, page 461 4th-century BC Roman consuls Barbula, Quintus {{AncientRome-politician-stub