Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1065 C. Cornelius (88) L. f. M. n. Cethegus

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 243?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin no. 116.

Career

  • Proconsul 201 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Elected by plebiscite, probably this year, to succeed L. Cornelius Lentulus in Spain (Liv. 30.41.4-5; cf. 31.49.7). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 200 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Proconsul in Spain (Liv. 31.49.7), probably appointed by plebiscite in 201 (Liv. 30.41.4-5). Won a victory in the Ager Sedetanus (31.49.7), and was elected Curule Aedile (31.50.6. see 199). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Aedilis Curulis 199 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 31.50.7-10; 32.7.14. On Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 40, no. 19. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumphator 197 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Galleis Insubribus, Cenomaneisque. MRR I.332-3, Itgenshorst no. 166, Rich no. 165. (Rich 2014)
  • Consul 197 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Brut. 73; Liv. 32.27.5; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 48f., 121, 452f.; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Zon. 9.16. Cornelius and Mi{333}nucius were assigned Italy as their province (Polyb. 18.11.2, and 12.1; Liv. 32.28.8). The former campaigned against the Gauls and the latter against the Gauls and the Ligurians (Liv. 32.28-31; 33.22-23; cf. the Elogium of Cornelius, Degrassi, Bull. Com. 67 [1939] 5-10). Cornelius celebrated a triumph over the Insubres and the Cenomani (Liv. 33.23.1), Minucius an ovatio over the Boii and the Ligurians (Liv. 33.23.8; Act. Tr., Degrassi 78f., 552; and Elogium, above). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 194 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 48f., 121, 454f. These Censors were the first to set apart special seats for senators at the games. They removed three senators, demoted a few knights, repaired the Atrium Libertatis and the Villa Publica, and completed the lustrum (Val. Ant. fr. 37 Peter; Liv. 34.44.4-5; 35.9.1; Val. Max. 4.5.1; Ascon. 69-70 C). They chose Scipio Africanus Princeps Senatus for the second time (Liv. 34.44.4). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 193 Africa (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to Africa to arbitrate a boundary dispute between Carthage and Masinissa, they left it undecided (Liv. 34.62.16-18; Zon. 9.18; cf. App. Lib. 67). (Broughton MRR I)

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