; On top: TER, in esergue: PAVLLVS Lucius Aemilius Paullus (fl.
He never supported Pompey, probably because he held a grudge against him for betraying his father in 77 BC.
He reconstructed the Basilica Aemilia in Rome, with part of his bribery money.
According to Valerius Maximus: "When the senate decreed that the temples of Isis and Serapis be demolished and none of the workmen dared touch them, consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus took off his official gown, seized an axe, and dashed it against the doors of that temple", (I, 3.3; quoting Julius Paris (translation from Loeb edition).
When Brutus died in 42, Paullus was pardoned and lived his remaining years at Miletus.