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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 964 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAULUS (older See also:form PAur.Lus), See also:LUCIUS See also:AEMILIUS  , surnamed MACEDONICUS (c . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . He enjoyed a magnificent See also:triumph, which lasted three days and was graced by the presence of the See also:captive See also:king See also:Perseus and his three See also:children . He lost his two sons by his second wife, and was thus See also:left without a son to See also:bear his name, his two sons by his first wife having been adopted into the See also:Fabian and Cornelian gentes . Paulus was See also:censor in 164, and died in 16o after a See also:long illness . At the funeral See also:games exhibited in his See also:honour the Hecyra of See also:Terence was acted for the second and the Adelphi for the first time . An aristocrat to the back-See also:bone, he was yet beloved by the See also:people . Of the vast sums brought by him into the Roman See also:treasury from See also:Spain and Macedonia he kept nothing to himself, and at his See also:death his See also:property scarcely sufficed to pay his wife's See also:dowry . As a general he was a strict disciplinarian; as an augur he discharged his duties with care and exactness .

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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