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Generally wrong. (Political Booknotes). Washington Monthly (6/1/2002)
...reminding us that the demand that generals be given a free hand goes back to the Roman republic when Consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus, in 168 B.C., sneered at the senatorial armchair warriors who presumed to advise him about subduing the Macedonians...

Propertian Elegy as "restored behavior": evoking Cynthia and Cornelia. Helios (9/22/2003)
...the so-called Queen of Elegies: the monologue of the aristocratic Cornelia's ghost to her living husband, L. Aemilius Paullus Lepidus).(1) Despite the considerable scholarship on the poems' place within the ancient literary tradition...

VIETNAM TO KOSOVO, FUMBLE TO FARCE. Quadrant (7/1/2000)
...leading armies into the Balkans ... causing huge problems for those really conducting operations.") -- Consul L. Aemilius Paullus on the role of "public opinion" in war, cited by Titus Livius Patavinus (59 BG-10 AD) in his History of Rome...

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