Aemilia was gentle, mild-mannered, but also fiercely loyal to her husband who upset many Senators by challenging the older leaders in their military strategy, and conservative Romans by his adoption of some parts of Greek lifestyle.Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-98158 H. H. Scullard, "Scipio Africanus: Soldier and Politician", Thames and Hudson, London, 1970. ; page 24</ref> The Greek historian Polybius who was living in the household of her brother Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus for some time, and who almost certainly was an eye-witness, wrote of Aemilia Tertia: