Paullus Aemilius Lepidus

Paullus Aemilius Lepidus^[1][2] (c. 77 BC – after 11 BC) was a Roman senator.

He was a grandson of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Appuleia through their son Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his wife. His paternal uncle Marcus Aemilius Lepidus served as a member of the Second Triumvirate. Paullus served as consul in 34 BC and censor in 22.^[2] Paullus was in some way related to a Cassia.^[3]

Paullus first married Cornelia (c. 54 BC-16 BC). With Cornelia, Paullus had three children: Lucius Aemilius Paullus (c. 37 BC-14 AD) the husband of Julia the Younger and consul in AD 1; Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (c. 30 BC-33 AD), consul in AD 6; and a daughter Aemilia Paulla (c. 22 BC). Aemilia was married twice: first to Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul in AD 13; second to Publius Memmius Regulus.

Paullus was widowed in 18 BC, the same year Cornelia's brother Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was consul.^[4] Not long after Cornelia's death, he married Claudia Marcella Minor, a daughter of Octavia the Younger, sister of the Roman emperor Augustus.^[1] The marriage of Marcella and Paullus linked two honored republican houses and tied them closely to the imperial circle.^[2] At some point after 11 BC, Marcella bore him a son, Paullus Aemilius Regulus,^[5] who later served as a quaestor during the rule of the Roman emperor Tiberius.^[6]

• R. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, Oxford University Press, 1989
• M. Lightman & B. Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, Infobase Publishing, 2008
• Article of Octavia Minor at Livius.org