Aemilia
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Aemilius Paulus
Daughter of Lucius Paulus and wife of Scipio the Great (Scipio Africanus).
This Paulus had a daughter, Aemilia, who was the wife of Scipio the Great, and a son, Aemilius Paulus, whose Life I now write.
Pompey
Sulla's stepdaughter, married to Pompey while pregnant by another husband, who died in childbirth soon after.
This calamity was added to the tragedy of that second marriage, and it was not the only one, indeed, since Aemilia had scarcely entered Pompey’s house before she succumbed to the pains of childbirth.
Romulus
Daughter of Aeneas and Lavinia, said in one account to have borne Romulus to Mars.
others that Aemilia, the daughter of Aeneas and Lavinia, bore him to Mars;
Sulla
Daughter of Scaurus and Metella, torn from her husband Manius Glabrio while pregnant to marry Pompey, and who dies in childbirth.
In the case of Pompey the Great, at least, wishing to establish relationship with him, he ordered him to divorce the wife he had, and then gave him in marriage Aemilia, daughter of Scaurus and his own wife Metella, whom he tore away from Manius Glabrio when she was with child by him;