title: Paullus Aemilius Regillus
text: # Paullus Aemilius Regillus
  
  Paullus Aemilius Regillus or Regulus (born around 15/14 BC) was a Roman Senator and grandnephew of the emperor Augustus.
  
  ## Biography
  
  ### Early life
  
  He was the son of the consul and censor Paullus Aemilius Lepidus and Claudia Marcella the Younger, who was a daughter of Octavia the Younger and thus a niece of the Roman emperor Augustus. From his father's previous marriage, Regillus had two half-brothers and one half-sister. He was born c. 15 BC/14 BC. His father died shortly after his birth, and his mother subsequently remarried. Regillus was born and raised in Rome. Through his half-brother Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus, he was the uncle of the Roman Empress Valeria Messallina.
  
  ### Career
  
  Regillus' political career was contemporaneous with the rule of the Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius, during which he served as a quaestor. During the reign of Tiberius (14 to 37), Regillus was one of the emperor's comites, an imperial legate and proconsul of a Roman province. According to inscriptional evidence, Regillus was patron of Saguntum.
  
  