{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg019.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg019.local001","title":"Αἰμίλιος Παῦλλος","titleGreek":"Αἰμίλιος Παῦλλος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1918","volume":"6","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives06plut/page/260/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Αἰμίλιος Παῦλλος. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1918. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg019.local001","excerpt":"The first chapter has been transposed to serve as Introduction to both the Timoleon and theAemilius Paulus. τὸν Αἰμιλίων οἶκον ἐν Ῥώμῃ τῶν εὐπατριδῶν γεγονέναι καὶ παλαιῶν οἱ πλεῖστοι συγγραφεῖς ὁμολογοῦσιν. ὅτι δʼ ὁ πρῶτος αὐτῶν καὶ τῷ γένει τήν ἐπωνυμίαν ἀπολιπὼν Μάμερκος ἦν, Πυθαγόρου παῖς τοῦ σοφοῦ, διʼ αἱμυλίαν λόγου καὶ χάριν Αἰμίλιος προσαγορευθείς, εἰρήκασιν ἔνιοι τῶν Πυθαγόρᾳ τήν Νομᾶ τοῦ βασιλέως παίδευσιν ἀναθέντων. οἱ μὲν οὖν πλεῖστοι τῶν εἰς δόξαν ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκίας ταύτης προελθόντων διʼ ἀρετὴν, ἣν ἐζήλωσαν, εὐτύχησαν, Λευκίου δὲ Παύλου τὸ περὶ Κάννας ἀτύχημα τήν τε φρόνησιν ἅμα καὶ τήν ἀνδρείαν ἔδειξεν. ὡς γὰρ οὐκ ἔπεισε τὸν συνάρχοντα κωλύων μάχεσθαι, τοῦ μὲν ἀγῶνος ἄκων μετέσχεν αὐτῷ, τῆς δὲ φυγῆς οὐκ ἐκοινώνησεν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ συνάψαντος τὸν κίνδυνον ἐγκαταλιπόντος αὐτὸς ἑστὼς καὶ μαχόμενος τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐτελεύτησε. τούτου θυγάτηρ μὲν Αἰμιλία Σκηπίωνι τῷ μεγάλῳ συνῴκησεν,…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/#tlg0007-tlg019-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/#tlg0007-tlg019-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/#tlg0007-tlg019-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/#tlg0007-tlg019-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/#tlg0007-tlg019-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/#tlg0007-tlg019-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/#tlg0007-tlg019-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg019.local001/#tlg0007-tlg019-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 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