PAULLUS MACEDONICUS, LUCIUS AEMILIUS

born c. 229 BC died 160 Paullus also spelled Paulus Roman general whose victory over the Macedonians at Pydna ended the Third Macedonian War (171168 BC). Paullus' father, a consul of the same name, had been killed fighting the Carthaginians at Cannae in 216. Praetor in 191 and consul in 182, Paullus campaigned against the Lusitanians in Spain (191189) and the Ingauni in Liguria (181). As consul again in 168, he decisively defeated the Macedonian king Perseus at Pydna (June 22). Paullus carried out the settlement with Macedonia and Greece, and, on orders from the Senate, he sacked the cities of Epirus. He was censor in 164. Paullus was the father of Scipio Aemilianus.