The aim
of
this study is to take up once again the issue
of
the three triumphs by L. Aemilius
Paullus in order to advance a hypothesis on the background to
VELL., 1, 9, 3,
where we read that
Paul also triumphed as
praetor -
L. Aemilius Paullus
et praetor et consul triumphaverat.
On the basis
of
a comparative study of the
praetores
L. Aemilius Regillus and L. Aemilius
Paullus recorded in Liv.
37, 46-58,
it can be conjectured that
VELL. 1, 9, 3,
when referring to the
praetor's triumph, confused the two Aemilii, attributing to the
praetor
Paullus the triumph
of
the
praetor
Regillus