Aemilius (fem. Aemilia) was the nomen of the gens Aemilia, one of the five most important patrician families (gentes maiores) of ancient Rome. By the Republican era and throughout the Imperial era, a Name in Ancient Rome for a male citizen consisted of three parts ( tria The term " patrician " originally referred to a group of elite families in Ancient Rome, including both their natural and Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC
The Aemilii were a very old clan; they were supposed to have descended from Mamercus, a son of Pythagoras who was surnamed "Aemylos" or "Aimilios" because of his refinement and speaking ability. "Pythagoras of Samos" redirects here For the Samian statuary of the same name see Pythagoras (sculptor. Another version quoted by Plutarch said that Mamercus was the fourth son of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, Numa being an admirer of Pythagoras and so naming a son after Pythagoras' son. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( Greek: Μέστριος Πλούταρχος c Numa Pompilius, according to Legend, was the second King of Rome, succeeding Romulus. The King of Rome ( Latin: rex regis) was the Chief magistrate of the Roman Kingdom. The branches of the Aemilii were Barbula, Buca, Lepidus, Mamercus, Papus, Paullus, Regilus and Scaurus. Buca is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey. It is one of the metropolitan districts of Greater İzmir. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was a common name for several successive generations of a family in Ancient Rome: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 187 BC, Gerard Encausse ( July 13, 1865 - 25 October 1916 whose esoteric pseudonym was Papus, was the Spanish -born French Paullus is a Cognomen of ancient Rome, also appearing as an apparent Praenomen of several Romans Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (born ca 163 BC &ndash died 89 BC was a Roman politician Of these, the Aemilii Lepidi had become the most notable, especially at the end of the Republic. The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of the
The family lent its name to both the road Via Aemilia and the much later Via Aemilia Scauri, and the Basilica Aemilia in Rome. Via Aemilia (It Via Emilia) was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain running from Ariminum ( Rimini) on the Adriatic coast to The Via Aemilia Scauri was an ancient Roman road built by the censor Marcus Aemilius Scaurus around 107 BCE The Basilica Aemilia was a civil Basilica in the Roman forum, in Rome, Italy. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2
Notable Aemilii from the Republic
Aemilii Barbulae
Aemilii Mamercini
- Lucius Aemilius Mam. Lucius Aemilius Barbula, son of Quintus and nephew of Quintus was a Roman politician and general Events By place Asia Minor The Battle of Corupedium in Lydia is the last battle of the Diadochi, the rival successors Not to be confused with Toronto. Taranto ( Ancient Greek: Tarās; Modern Greek: Tarantas) is a coastal city in f. Mamercinus (Mamercus), consul 484, 478, 473 BC
- Tiberius Aemilius L. f. Mamercinus (Mamercus), consul 467 BC
- Manius Aemilius Mam. f. Mamercinus, consul 410 BC
- Lucius/Marcus Aemilius L. f. Mamercinus (Mamercus), consul 366, 363 BC
- Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus Privernas, consul 341, 329 BC
- Tiberius Aemilius Mamercinus, consul 339 BC
Aemilii Paulli
- Lucius Aemilius Paullus, consul 219, 216 (father of Macedonicus)
- Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, (229 BC-160 BC), consul 182, 168. There have been several people named Lucius Aemilius Paul ( l) us: Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219 BC Lucius Aemilius Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus (229 BC-160 BC was a Roman general and politician
Aemilii Lepidi
Aemilii Papi
Aemilii Scauri
Other Republican Aemilii
- Marcus Aemilius , consular tribune 390 BC
- Gaius Aemilius, consular tribune 390 BC
- Lucius Aemilius, consular tribune 388 BC and later
- Quintus Aemilius (Aulius) Q. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (d 152 BC was a Roman Consul, Pontifex Maximus and censor. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (120 BC &ndash 77 BC was a Roman statesman Manius Aemilius Lepidus was a statesman of the Roman republic. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus ( Latin: M·AEMILIVS·M·F·Q·N·LEPIDVSborn ca 90 BC died 13 BC, was a Patrician Roman politician Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger or Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor ( Minor, Latin for the younger, died 30 BC) was the only child of triumvir Manius Aemilius Lepidus was the son of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger and consul of Rome in 11 Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (d 13 BC was a member of the Roman Senate. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (c 30 BC-33 was a Roman Senator, politician and general praised by the historian Tacitus. Quintus Aemilius Papus, a member of the Gens Aemilia of the branch cognomated Papus was a Roman general and statesman Events By place Asia Minor The city of Pergamum in Asia Minor ends its allegiance to Lysimachus. Events By place Seleucid Empire After their defeats in Greece, the Gauls move into Asia Minor. Lucius Aemilius Papus (fl 216 BC a member of the Gens Aemilia of the branch cognominated Papus (a plebian family who was pittied upon by many patrician family's Events By place Roman Republic A coalition of Cisalpine Gallic tribes ( Taurini, Taurisces Insubres, Lingones Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (born ca 163 BC &ndash died 89 BC was a Roman politician The princeps senatus (plural principes senatus) was the first member by precedence of the Roman Senate. f. Cerretanus, 323 BC
- Lucius Aemilius Regillus, praetor (190 BC)
Notable Aemilii from the Empire
- Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus, Emperor Aemilianus (253)
- Blossius Aemilius Dracontius (5th century)
- Aemilius Papinianus, jurist (141-212)
- Aemilius Asper, commentator (2nd century)
- Aemilius Macer, poet (d. Lucius Aemilius Regillus (fl c 190-189 BC was a Roman admiral and Praetor during the war with Antiochus III of Syria. Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus (c 207 - 253 commonly known in English as Aemilian, was Roman Emperor for about three months in 253 Blossius Aemilius Dracontius (c455-c505 of Carthage (according to the early tradition of Spanish origin Christian poet, flourished in the latter part Aemilius Papinianus (142&ndash212 also known as Papinian, was a celebrated Roman jurist magister libellorum and after the death of Gaius Aemilius Asper, Latin Grammarian, possibly lived in the 1st century or late 2nd century. Aemilius Macer of Verona was a Roman Didactic Poet. He authored two poems one on birds ( Ornithogonia) and the other on the antidotes 16 BC)
- Aemilius Magnus Arborius, elegaic poet
- Aemilius Pacensis, a tribune of the city cohorts at the death of Nero
References
- Friedrich Munzer, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families (1920)
- T. Aemilius Magnus Arborius was the gallo-roman author of a poem in ninety-two lines in elegaic verse titled Ad Nympham nimis cultam, which contains a great many expressions taken Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( December 15, 37 – June 9, 68) born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Friedrich Münzer ( 22 April 1868 - 20 October 1942) was a German classical scholar noted for the development of Prosopography R. S. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1950-1, 1986)
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