Aemilianus (disambiguation)

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Aemilianus can refer to a number of people in Classical history:

• Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus, emperor of Rome for several months in 253 AD.
• Aemilianus, son of Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, was adopted by Publius Cornelius Scipio, the son of Scipio Africanus, and was thus called Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus.
• Lucius Mussius Aemilianus, one of the Thirty Tyrants. He supported the rebellion of the Macriani against Gallienus (260-261 AD), and afterwards probably proclaimed himself emperor. He was later captured and strangled in prison.
• Aemilianus, a native of the town of Nicaea, and an epigrammatic poet. Nothing further is known about him. Three of his epigrams have been preserved.^[1]
• Saint Aemilianus (also called Aemilius, fl. 5th century) was martyred in Africa in 484 AD.
• Aemilianus, a bishop of Nantes during Charlemagne's reign (i.e. late 8th century), who supposedly fought the Saracens in Burgundy. Some scholars consider him to be a legendary, rather than historical, figure.^[2]

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• Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), “Aemilianus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 30 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).