[1] During this year, he defeated Demetrius of Pharos in the Second Illyrian War, and forced him to flee to the court of Philip V of Macedon.

[1][3] During the Second Punic War, Paullus was made consul a second time and served with Gaius Terentius Varro.

Varro led out the troops against the advice of Paullus and the battle became a crushing defeat for the Romans.

[6] In Silius Italicus' epic poem Punica, Paullus is described as killing the Carthaginian commander Viriathus prior to his own death.

His daughter, Aemilia Tertia, married Scipio Africanus, the Roman commander who defeated Hannibal.