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See also:PAULUS (older See also:form PAur.Lus), See also:LUCIUS See also:AEMILIUS
, surnamed MACEDONICUS (c
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229–16o B.C.), See also:Roman See also:general, a member of a patrician See also:family of the Aemilian gens, son of the See also:consul of the same name who See also:fell at See also:Cannae
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As consul for the second See also:time (168) he was entrusted with the command in the Macedonian See also:War, which the incapacity of previous generals had allowed to See also:drag on for three years
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He brought the war to a speedy termination by the See also:battle of Pydna, fought on the 22nd of See also:June (See also:Julian See also:calendar)168
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See also:Macedonia was henceforward a Roman See also:province, and See also:Paulus, having made a tour through See also:Greece, with the assistance of ten Roman commissioners arranged the affairs of the See also:country
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He enjoyed a magnificent See also:triumph, which lasted three days and was graced by the presence of the See also:captive See also: He was greatly in sympathy with See also:Greek learning and See also:art, and was a friend of the historian See also:Polybius . See See also:Plutarch, See also:Aemilius Paulus; See also:Livy xliv . 17–xlvi . 41; Polybius See also:xxix.–xxxii . |
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