Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 232 BC)
3rd-century BC Roman consul
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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (died 216 BC) was the Roman consul for 232 BC,[1] and according to Livy served again as suffect consul, possibly in 221.[2]
He also served at one time as augur.
According to Livy, in 218 BC, at the onset of the Second Punic War, he was in Sicily serving as propraetor.[3]
Lepidus died in 216 BC.[4]
It was in Lepidus' honor that the first gladiatorial games (munera) were held, on the occasion of his death. He had three sons: Lucius, Quintus, and Marcus.[5] The latter was most likely the Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, who was a Roman consul and Pontifex Maximus in the early 2nd century BC.