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