Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1023 L. Cornelius (188) L. f. L. n. Lentulus

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • Before 225?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
  • 173, death (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

son of
? L. Cornelius (211) L. f. Ti. n. Lentulus Caudinus (cos. 237) (Zmeskal 2009)
brother of
? P. Cornelius (214) Lentulus Caudinus (pr. 203) (DPRR Team)
? L. Cornelius (212) Lentulus Caudinus (aed. cur. 205) (DPRR Team)
? P. Cornelius (200) Lentulus (pr. 214) (DPRR Team)
? Cn. Cornelius (176) L. f. L. n. Lentulus (cos. 201) (DPRR Team)
father of
P. Cornelius (202) L. f. L. n. Lentulus (cos. suff. 162) (RE)

Career

  • Decemvir Sacris Faciundis 213 to 173 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • This Decemvir, who died in 173 (Liv. 42.10.6), is probably to be identified with one or other of two Cornelii Lentuli (nos. 187 and 188 in RE). The first of these was Praetor in 211, and Legate of Marcellus in 209, the other Curule Aedile in 205 and Consul in 199. Willems combines them in the person of one senator (1.311f.), but Bardt (4) questions the holding of a curule aedileship after the praetorship (see Seidel, 28, note 2). (Broughton MRR I)
    • L. Cornelius Lentulus succeeded C. Papirius Maso. Liv. 25.2.2. The story that Scipio won election both for himself and his brother is intrinsically improbable, and despite the authority of Polybius, (10.4-5), has been generally rejected (E. Meyer, Kl. Schr. 2.430, note 4, and 431, note 1; Seidel 22f.). See 195, Aediles. (Broughton MRR I)
    • A. Postumius Albinus (Luscus) succeeded L. Cornelius Lentulus. Liv. 42.10.6. On Lentulus, see 213, note 8; on Postumius, Münzer, Bull. Com., 67 (1939) 27-30; Lübker, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Aedilis Curulis 209 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Liv. 29.11.12. Lucius was elected and held office while absent as Proconsul in Spain. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Sumner questions the correctness of Livy's statement (29.11.12) that this Lucius was elected and served as curule aedile in absence in 205 (he was then proconsul in Spain, MRR 1.302). Sumner would identify him with L. Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus (212), curule aedile in 209 (see MRR 1.286), but keep him consul in 199, while attributing the curule aedileship of 205 to his younger brother Publius (214), who became praetor in 203 (MRR 1.311). See Orators 140, and stemma, 143, and Arethusa 3, 1970, 89. Two brothers remain as curule aediles together in 205, but not the same two as in MRR 1.302. R. C. Knapp, Aspects of the Roman Experience in Iberia, 206-100 B.C 91, note 18, accepts Livy's text. Note that C. Cornelius Cethegus (88), procos. in Spain 201-200 (Liv. 30.41.4-5) received a successor when elected aed. cur. for 199 in absence (31.50.11). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 206 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 213, note 8. (Broughton MRR I)
    • A private citizen invested with imperium pro consule to succeed Scipio in Spain (Liv. 28.38.1, pro praetore; cf. 29.13.7, pro consule; cf. Polyb. 11.33.8; Dio fr. 57.56; Zon. 9.11; Mommsen, Str. 2.652, note 4). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 205 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 213, note 8. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Continued in Spain with imperium pro consule (Liv. 28.45.10; 29.13.7), where with his colleague Manlius Acidinus he quelled a revolt led by Indibilis and Mandonius (Liv. 29.2-3, and 13.7; App. Ib. 38).{303} (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 204 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 213, note 8. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Imperium prorogued as Proconsul in Spain (Liv. 29.13.7).{308} (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 203 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Imperium prorogued in Spain (Liv. 30.2.7; see 206 and 204, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 202 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Imperium prorogued (as Proconsul) in Spain (Liv. 30.27.9, and see 203, Promagistrates, cf. 30.41.4-5). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 201 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Proconsul in Spain (Liv. 30.41.4-5; cf. 31.20.1). See above, on Cethegus. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumphator 200 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Ovation ex Hispania. MRR I.324, III.63, Itgenshorst no. 164, Rich no. 163. (Rich 2014)
  • Proconsul 200 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Not Lentulus but Blasio (Liv. 33.27.1-2) was elected and sent to Spain at the end of 200 (cf. Liv. 31.50.11; and see 199, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Proconsul in Spain (Liv. 28.45.10; 29.13.7; see 205-200). Returned to celebrate an ovatio (Liv. 31.20.1-7). See Degrassi 551. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Consul 199 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 31.49.12; 32.2.6, 7.1 and 8, and 8.3; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 48f., 121, 452f.; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod. Cornelius' province was Italy, but he went to Gaul after Baebius' defeat (Liv. 32.1.2-3 and 7.6-8). Villius was assigned Macedonia (Liv. 32.1.2-3), where he checked a mutiny, and after wintering in Corcyra, was succeeded early in 198 by Flamininus (Liv. 32.6.1-8; cf. Plut. Flam. 3.1-2; Zon. 9.16). On Villius, see Lübker, no. 1. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 198 Gallia Cisalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • His command in Gaul was prorogued until the coming of the Consul with a new army (Liv. 32.8.3, and 26.2). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 196 Macedonia, Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The need for a man of seniority and distinction for this commission suggests that he was Lentulus, the Consul of 199. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Sent to arbitrate differences between Antiochus and Ptolemy (Liv. 33.39.1); went with other Legates (see below) to treat with Antiochus at Lysimacheia (Polyb. 18.49.3; Liv. 33.39.2, and 41.2). (Broughton MRR I)

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