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Manius Aemilius Lepidus (consul 11)

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Manius Aemilius Lepidus was a Roman senator who was active during the Principate. He was ordinary consul in AD 11 as the colleague of Titus Statilius Taurus.[1] Tacitus reports that Augustus, while discussing possible rivals for the Roman Emperor Tiberius on his deathbed, described him as worthy of becoming emperor (capax imperii), but "disdainful" of supreme power.[2]

Biography

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Early life

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Lepidus has been assumed to be the son of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger and his wife Servilia Isaurica, but modern-day historians believe he was more likely the nephew of Lepidus the Younger. He had a sister named Aemilia Lepida.

Career

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After 5 BC, but prior to acceding to the consulship, Lepidus was co-opted as an Augur.[3] He defended his sister at her trial in AD 20. At the trial of Clutorius Priscus, he argued without success that the proposed death sentence was excessively harsh.[4][5] In AD 21, he achieved the pinacle of a Senatorial career, the proconsular governorship of Asia.[6]

Ronald Syme has argued, very cogently, that it was not Manius but Marcus Lepidus, consul in 6 BCE, who defended Clutorius Priscus, see Syme, R. (1955). Marcus Lepidus, Capax Imperii. The Journal of Roman Studies, 45, 22–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/298740

Personal life

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He had a daughter also called Aemilia Lepida who married Emperor Galba.[7]

Family

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References

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  1. ^ Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 7
  2. ^ Tacitus, Annales, 1.13
  3. ^ Martha W. Hoffman Lewis, The Official Priests of Rome under the Julio-Claudians (Rome: American Academy, 1955), p. 43
  4. ^ Shotter, D. C. A. (April 1969). "The Trial of Clutorius Priscus". Greece & Rome. 16 (1): 14–18. doi:10.1017/S0017383500016260. JSTOR 642891.
  5. ^ Rogers, Robert Samuel (January 1932). "Two Criminal Cases Tried before Drusus Caesar". Classical Philology. 27 (1): 75–79. doi:10.1086/361432. JSTOR 265249.
  6. ^ Ronald Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls of Asia", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 53 (1983), pp. 192
  7. ^ Barrett, Anthony A. (2002). Agrippina: Mother of Nero. Roman Imperial Biographies. Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 9781134618637.
  8. ^ Tacitus, Publius Cornelius; Grant, Michael (1996). The Annals of Imperial Rome (PDF) (3 ed.). London, England: Penguin Classics. p. 436. ISBN 9780140440607. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
Political offices
Preceded byas Suffect consuls Consul of the Roman Empire
AD 11
with Titus Statilius Taurus 		Succeeded byas Suffect consul
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