Aemilia Lepida

This Aemilia was daughter of Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus,[1] wife of Metellus Scipio and former fiancée of Cato.

Cato was greatly exasperated and inflamed by this, and attempted to go to law about it; but his friends prevented this, and so, in his rage and youthful fervour, he betook himself to iambic verse, and heaped much scornful abuse upon Scipio, adopting the bitter tone of Archilochus, but avoiding his license and puerility.

Aemilia Lepida was a Roman noble woman who lived in the 1st century BC.

The couple had several children including her son, suffect consul of 31, Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus.

One of her daughters-in-law was Domitia Lepida the Younger a great niece of Emperor Augustus and a granddaughter of triumvir Mark Antony.

[4] Aemilia Lepida was daughter of Manius Aemilius Lepidus, consul in AD 11.

[5] When Lepida lived, Agrippina the Younger (a widow after Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus' death) tried to make shameless advances to Galba, who was devoted to his wife and thus completely uninterested.

On one occasion Lepida's mother gave Agrippina the Younger, while in the company of a whole bevy of married women, a public reprimand and slapped her in the face.

Despite her uncle's disgrace, and due to her father's high standing with the Roman emperors and the Senate, she married her second cousin Drusus Caesar.