Marcus Amelius Lepidus 
Marcus Amelius was born in 0280 BC in Rome. Marcus Amelius' father is Marcus Amelius Lepidus. His paternal grandfather was Marcus Amelius Lepidus. He was an only child. He died in 0216 BC.General Notes
M. aemilius M. p. M. N. lepidus, probably a grandson of No. 1, was augur and twice consul. He died in the year of the battle of Cannae, b. c. 216 ; and his three sons exhibited in his honour funeral games which lasted for three days, and in which twenty-two pairs of gladiators fought in the forum. (Liv. xxiii. 30.) His first consulship was in b. c. 232, when the agrarian law of C. Flaminius was passed (Polyb. ii. 21 ; Zonar. viii. p. 401, c); but the date of his second consulship is uncertain. Some have supposed that he was consul suffectus in b. c. 220. (Pighius, ad Ann.} [Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology III:762-763]
He had a biological son named Marcus Aemilius.
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