CORN1363 Ser. Cornelius (208a) Lentulus

Status

  • Patrician

Relationships

son of
Ser. Cornelius (207) Lentulus (aed. cur. 207) (RE)
father of
Ser. Cornelius (208b) Ser. f. Lentulus (pr. c. 110) (RE)
grandfather of
? Ser. Cornelius (208b) Ser. f. Lentulus (pr. c. 110) (Brennan 2000)

Career

  • Legatus (Ambassador) 172 Macedonia, Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to the various Greek communities to keep them in alliance with Rome against Macedon, they sailed with a guard to Corcyra and there apportioned regions to each member of the embassy: to Marcius and Atilius, northern and central Greece and the Peloponnese; to the Lentuli, Cephallenia and the western Peloponnese; and to Decimius, King Gentius of Illyria (Liv. 42.37.1-9). Marcius and Atilius proceeded through Epirus and Acarnania to the Thessalian council at Larisa, and then in a conference with Perseus encouraged him to send envoys to Rome under agreement for a truce (Liv. 42.38.1-47.3, cf. 47.1-9; T. Frank, CPh 5 [1910] 358-361). They went on to break up the Boeotian League, placing pro-Roman parties in control and attaching the communities individually to Rome (Polyb. 27.1.1-2.10; Liv. 42.43.4-44.6), and summoned Ser. Cornelius to stay at Chalcis. At Argos they induced the council of the Achaeans to send a guard to Chalcis (Polyb. 27.2.11; Liv. 42.44.7-8), then making an end of these winter activities they rejoined P. Cornelius and returned to Rome (Polyb. 27.2.12; Liv. 42.44.8, principio hiemis !). Decimius in Illyria fell under suspicion of accepting bribes (Liv. 42.45.8). Cf. App. Mac. 11.4. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor 169 Sicilia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Election Liv. 43.11.7 Provinces and armies Liv. 43.11.8, 12.1-11, 15.2-3. (Broughton MRR I)
    • The Ser. Cornelius Ser. f. Lentulus, honored with a statue at Delos (I. de Délos 4.1.1845) is almost certainly to be dated later: see RE 208a. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 44.16.7. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 735, footnote 98 (Brennan 2000)