Publius Aelius Paetus (fl. c. 240 BC – 174 BC) was a Romanconsul of the late 3rd century BC. He was a prominent supporter of Scipio Africanus, and was elected censor with Africanus in 199.[1]
Family
Publius Aelius Paetus was apparently the elder surviving son of Quintus Aelius Paetus, a praetor who was killed at Cannae in August 216 BC. The father may have been descended from Publius Aelius Paetus, who was consul in 337 BC and a Master of the Horse, and as such, one of the earliest plebeian consuls; another ancestor may have been Gaius Aelius Paetus, consul in 286 BC.
Aelius Paetus makes relatively few appearances in Livy's History of Rome. He was aedile in 204 BC,[2] was elected praetor in 203 BC[3] and then selected as Master of the Horse,[4] and became consul in 201 with Gnaeus Cornelius L.f. Lentulus.[5]
In 199 he was elected censor with Africanus himself. The two censors were relatively liberal in their lustrum and degraded none.[8]
Paetus died in 174 during a pestilence at Rome, as recorded by Livy in a fragmentary chapter.[9]
His son was Quintus Aelius Paetus, who became consul in 167.
References
^T. Robert S. Broughton: 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), p. 327
^T. Robert S. Broughton: 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), p. 319-319-323
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