Tum senatus populusque Romanus L. Aemilium Paulum, qui et praetor et consul triumphaverat, virum in tantum laudandum, in quantum intellegi virtus potest, consulem creavit.
Then the senate and the Roman people selected Lucius Aemilius Paulus as consul, who had previously achieved a triumph in his praetorship as well as his consulship. He was a man deserving of the greatest acclaim that can be linked with bravery.