Aemilius
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. Another version quoted by Plutarch said that Mamercus was a son of King Numa Pompilius, Numa being an admirer of Pythagoras and so naming a son after Pythagoras' son. (However, the similarity of the name "Aemilius" and the Greek word aimilios is most likely just a coincidence.)
The branches of the Aemilii were Barbula, Buca, Lepidus, Mamercus, Papus, Paullus, Regilus and Scaurus. Of these, the Aemilii Lepidi had the most notable Romans, especially at the end of the Republic.
The family lent its name to both the road Via Aemilia and the much later Via Aemilia Scauri, and the Basilica Aemilia in Rome.
- Lucius Aemilius, consular tribune 388 BC and later
- Marcus Aemilius and Gaius Aemilius, consular tribunes 390 BC
- Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus - emperor
- Aemilius Asper - commentator
- Quintus Aemilius Q.f. Barbula, consul 317 BC
- Quintus Aemilius (Aulius) Q.f. Cerretanus, 323 BC
- Blossius Aemilius Dracontius - poet and rhetor
- Manius Aemilius Lepidus - consul
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus - five
- Lucius Aemilius Mam.f. Mamercinus (Mamercus), consul 484, 478, 473 BC
- Lucius/Marcus Aemilius L.f. Mamercinus (Mamercus), consul 366, 363 BC
- Manius Aemilius Mam.f. Mamercinus, consul 410 BC
- Tiberius Aemilius L.f. Mamercinus (Mamercus), consul 467 BC
- Tiberius Aemilius Mamercinus, consul 339 BC
- Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus Privernas, consul 341, 329 BC
- Lucius Aemilius Q.f. Barbula, consul 281 BC, conqueror of Taranto
- Lucius Aemilius Paullus - three consuls
- Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus - general
- Aemilius Macer - poet
- Marcus Aemilius Scaurus - several, including a princeps senatus
- Aemilius Papinianus - jurist
- Aemilius Lepidus Paullus - consul
- Lucius Aemilius Regillus - praetor
Reference
- Friedrich Munzer, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families (1920)