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Me'mmius

11. P. Memmius Regulus, was supplementary consul in A. D. 31 (Fasti; D. C. 58.9), and afterwards praefect of Macedonia and Achaia, in which office he received orders from Caligula to remove to Rome the statue of the Pheidian Jupiter from Olympia. (J. AJ 19.1; Paus. 9.27; comp. D. C. 1. 6.) Memmius was the husband of Lollia Paulina, and was compelled by Caligula to divorce her. (Tac. Ann. 12.23; Suet. Cal. 25; D. C. 59.12; Euseb. in Chron.; comp. Tac. Ann. 12.1.) Memmius died in A. D. 63. (Tac. Ann. 14.47.)

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