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{{short description|Roman Senator who held a number of offices under Augustus and Tiberius}}
{{for|his grand-son with the same name|Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus}}
'''Lucius Aelius Lamia''' (before 43 BC &ndash; AD 33) was a [[Roman empire|Roman]] [[Roman senate|Senator]] who held a number of offices under [[Augustus]] and [[Tiberius]]. He was [[Roman consul|consul]] in the year AD 3 with [[Marcus Servilius]] as his colleague.<ref>[[Alison E. Cooley]], ''The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy'' (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p.&nbsp;458</ref>
Lucius was the son of [[Lucius Aelius Lamia]], a loyal partisan of [[Cicero]] who was made [[praetor]] in 43 BC but died before completing his term.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1822.html |title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 714 (V. 2) |accessdate=2013-06-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705215442/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1822.html |archivedate=2013-07-05 }}</ref> His connection with the prominent Aelii Tuberones (including [[Aelia Paetina]], second wife of the emperor [[Claudius]]) is not known. It is unlikely his father was the same man as Lucius Aelius Tubero, the possible great-grandfather of [[Aelia Paetina]].
== Career ==
Only one of his offices before acceding to the consulate is known: Lucius was ''[[tresviri monetalis]]'', the most prestigious of the four boards that form the ''[[vigintiviri]]'', in 9 BC together with [[Publius Silius]].<ref>[[Ronald Syme]], ''The Augustan Aristocracy'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1986), p.&nbsp;52</ref> After he stepped down from the consulate, Lucius served as ''legatus propraetor'' or [[Roman governor|governor]] of [[Germania]], then [[Pannonia]].<ref>[[Velleius Paterculus]], 116.2</ref> Towards the beginning of Tiberius' reign the [[sortition]] awarded Lucius the [[proconsul]]ship of [[Africa (Roman province)|Africa]] (between AD 14 and 17). An inscription recovered from a crossroads near [[Leptis Magna]] in [[Tunisia]] records that Lucius constructed 44 miles of road from that town to the edge of its territory at "the order of Tiberius Caesar Augustus".<ref>[http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT930.html IRT 930]</ref>
In 22 AD he was appointed imperial legate to [[Syria]] by [[Tiberius]] but was detained in Rome and never traveled to Syria in person. In the last year of his life, 33 AD, Lucius Aelius Lamia served as [[praefectus urbi]].<ref name="ann6.26">[[Tacitus]], ''[[Annales (Tacitus)|Annales]]'' [[s:The Annals (Tacitus)/Book 6#27|6.27]]</ref>
== Notes ==
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== External links ==
* [http://virtualreligion.net/iho/lamia.html Aelius Lamia] entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith
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