Lucius Aemilius Barbula or Lucius Aemilius Q.f. Q.n. Barbula, was a Roman politician and general from the patrician gens Aemilia. He was elected consul

Consul

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 for 281 BCE and was given a command against the Samnites. He invaded the territory of Tarentum

Taranto

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, which summoned Pyrrhus of Epirus

Pyrrhus of Epirus

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 for help. In 280 BCE, he was awarded a triumph

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 for his victories in Tarentum, Samnium, and elsewhere.

Barbula was son of Quintus Aemilius Barbula

Quintus Aemilius Barbula

Quintus Aemilius Barbula , or Q. Aemilius Q. f. L. n. Barbula, was consul in 317 B.C., in which year a treaty was made with the Apulian Teates, Nerulum taken by Barbula, and Apulia entirely subdued. Quintus Aemilius Barbula (fl. 317-311 BC), or Q. Aemilius Q. f. L. n. Barbula, was consul in 317...

, consul of 317 BC

317 BC

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 and 311 BC

311 BC

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, and grandson of another Quintus. His son Marcus Aemilius L.n. Q.f. Barbula became consul in 230 BC, the third and last successive generations of consuls from this branch.

Sources

• Smith, William. "BARBULA: 2. L. Aemilius Barbula" Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870), online version. v. 1, page 461-462
• T. Robert S. Broughton
  Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton
  Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton was a Canadian classical scholar and leading Latin prosopographer of the twentieth century. He is especially noted for his definitive three-volume work, Magistrates of the Roman Republic ....
  
  : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 B.C. - 100 B.C.. Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprint 1968. (Philological Monographs. Edited by the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, 1)