Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus was a consul of the Roman Republic, as well as a general, who conquered the Antigonid kingdom of Macedon during the Third Macedonian War.
The Triumph of Aemilius Paullus by Vernet, ca. 1789.
Angelica Kauffmann, Aemilius Paullus and his family, by 1783.
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The gens Aemilia, originally written Aimilia, was one of the greatest patrician families at ancient Rome. The gens was of great antiquity, and claimed descent from Numa Pompilius, the second King of R
Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
…Paullus' father was Lucius Aemilius Paullus, the consul defeated and killed in the Battle of Cannae. He was, in his time, the head of his branch of the Aemilii Paulii, an old and aristocratic patrician family. Their influence was immense, particularly due to their fortune and alliance with the Cornelii Scipiones…
Imperial-era consular fasti listing several Aemilii
Obverse of a denarius of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the triumvir
Gravestone of freedmen (liberti) with the nomen Aemilius, from Emerita Augusta, Roman Spain