A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

5. L.AemiliusPapus, praetor B. C. 205, obtained Sicily as his province. It was under this Aemilius Papus that C. Octavius, the great-grand-father of the emperor Augustus, served in Sicily. (Liv. 28.38; Suet. Auq. 2.) [OCTAVIUS, No. 12.] The L. Aemilius Papus, decemvir sacrorum, who died in B. C. 171, is probably the same person as the preceding. (Liv. 42.28.)