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Paullus Macedonicus, Lucius Aemilius d.160BC
Roman general and politician

The son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, he was famous primarily for his defeat of Perseus, King of Macedonia, at the Battle of Pydna (168BC), and for suppressing the Macedonian monarchy, whence his title 'Macedonicus'. With Perseus's book collection, which fell to him as booty, he created the first private library at Rome. His second son, whom he gave in adoption to Publius Scipio, was the notorious destroyer of Carthage and Numantia, Scipio Aemilianus.