A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Æmelia Tertia, third daughter of Lucius Æmelius Paulus the Second
ÆMELIA TERTIA,
Third daughter of Lucius Æmelius Paulus the Second, who received from her lips the first favourable omen of his victory over Persius, king of Macedonia. It is said that Æmelius, returning from the comitia found his daughter weeping, and, taking her in his arms, inquired the cause of her sorrow. "Know you not," she replied, "that Persius, (a favourite dog,) is dead?" Her father exclaimed, "I accept the omen!" and entered hopefully on the war.