Quintus Aemilius Papus was elected consul for 282 BC and 278, both times with Gaius Fabricius Luscinus as his colleague.
[1] This, however, contradicts information derived from the younger man's filiation which was Lucius Aemilius Q.f.
Papus, or Lucius Aemilius, son of Quintus, grandson of Gnaeus (or Cnaieus).
[2] Valerius Maximus, writing much later, said that there was silver in the homes of Gaius Fabricius [Luscinus] and Quintus Aemilius Papus, the leading men of their era.
Papus behaved rather assertively when he inherited those items, because he decided on account of their religious significance that he would not get rid of them.