Lucius Aelius Lamia (before 43 BC – AD 33) was a Roman Senator who held a number of offices under Augustus and Tiberius. He was consul in the year AD 3 with Marcus Servilius as his colleague.[1]
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.[2] 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.
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.[3] After he stepped down from the consulate, Lucius served as legatus propraetororgovernorofGermania, then Pannonia.[4] Towards the beginning of Tiberius' reign the sortition awarded Lucius the proconsulshipofAfrica (between AD 14 and 17). An inscription recovered from a crossroads near Leptis MagnainTunisia records that Lucius constructed 44 miles of road from that town to the edge of its territory at "the order of Tiberius Caesar Augustus".[5]
In 22 AD he was appointed imperial legate to SyriabyTiberius 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.[6]
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio, |
Consul of the Roman Empire AD 3 with Marcus Servilius |
Succeeded by as Suffect consuls |
