Aemilianus

Aemĭlĭānus, a, um, adj. [Aemilius],

• relating to the Aemilian gens, Aemilian. Thus Scipio Africanus Minor, the son of Paulus Aemilius, was called Aemilianus, Vell. 1, 10; Flor. 2, 15.—In neutr. plur.: Aemĭlĭāna (sc. aedificia or loca), a place just out of Rome, not far from the Campus Martius, perh. thus named in honor of Scipio Aemilianus, Varr. R. R. 3, 2. There was also, in the seventh region of the city of Rome, an Aemilian street, Sext. Ruf. do Reg. Urb. Rom.; from

Aemiliānus, a, um, s. Aemilius.

Æmĭlĭānus, a, um, Émilien, agnomen du second Scipion lʼAfricain, tiré du nom de sa propre famille [il était fils de L. Æmilius Paullus] et ajouté aux noms de son père adoptif || Æmĭlĭāna, ōrum, n. , faubourg de Rome : Varro R. 3, 2, 6 ; Suet. Claud. 18, 1 || prædia Tigellini Æmiliana Tac. Ann. 15, 40, propriété de Tigellin dans le faubourg Émilien.

Aemilia'nus

1. The son of L. Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, was adopted by P. Cornelius Scipio, the son of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, and was thus called P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus. [Scipio.]

Aemilia'nus

2. The governor of Pannonia and Moesia in the reign of Gallus. He is also called Aemilius; and on coins we find as his praenomen both Marcus and Caius. On one coin he is called C. Julius Aemilianus; but there is some doubt about the genuineness of the word Julius. (Eckhel, vii. p. 372.) He was born in Mauritania about A. D. 206. He defeated the barbarians who had invaded his province, and chased them as far as the Danube, A. D. 253. He distributed among his soldiers the booty he had gained, and was saluted emperor by them. He then marched into Italy, but Gallus, who had advanced to meet him, was slain at Interamna together with his son Volusianus by his own soldiers. Aemilianus was acknowledged by the senate, but was slain after a reign of three or four months by his soldiers near Spoletum, on the approach of Valerianus. According to other accounts he died a natural death. (Zosimus, 1.28, 29; Zonaras, 12.21, 22; Eutrop. 9.5; Aurel. Vict. de Caes. 31, Epit. 31.)

Aemilia'nus

3. One of the thirty tyrants (A. D. 259-268) was compelled by the troops in Egypt to assume the purple. He took the surname of Alexander or Alexandrinus. Gallienus sent Theodotus against him, by whom he was taken and sent prisoner to Gallienus. Aemilianus was strangled in prison. (Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 22, Gallien. 4, 5.)

Aemilia'nus

(who is also called Aemilius) lived in the fifth century after Christ, and is known as a physician, confessor, and martyr. In the reign of the Vandal King Hunneric (A. D. 477-484), during the Arian persecution in Africa, he was most cruelly put to death. The Romish church celebrates his memory on the sixth of December, the Greek church on the seventh. (Martyrol. Rom. ed. Baron.; Victor Vitensis, De Persecut. Vandal. 5.1, with Ruinart's notes, Paris. 8vo. 1694; Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum Professione Medicorum.) [W.A.G]

Aemilia'nus

(Αἰμιλίανος), a native of the town of Nicaea, and an epigrammatic poet. Nothing further is known about him. Three of his epigrams have been preserved. (Anthol. Graec. 7.623, 9.218, 756.) [C.P.M]

Aemiliānus

The cognomen of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus Minor, who was the son of L. Aemilius Paulus. See Scipio.