CORN1390 P. Cornelius (76) P. f. Blasio

Status

  • Patrician

Relationships

son of
? Cn. Cornelius (74) Blasio (pr. 194) (Brennan 2000)

Career

  • Legatus (Ambassador) 170 Istria, Illyria (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to the Carni, Istri, and Iapydes to answer their complaints regarding the misdeeds of the Consul Cassius in 171 (Liv. 43.5.7 and 10). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Monetalis 169 to 158 (RRC) Expand
    • Monetalis. In MRR 2.436, and Index, 551, refer also to Crawford, RRC[63] 1.239-241, no. 189, 169-158 B.C. Crawford would date his praetorship to the late 140s, but Sherk, RDGE no. 4, p. 39, to 165-160 B.C.; see MRR 1.438, 165 B.C.; but cf. H. B. Mattingly, NC 1969, 103-104, who makes a good case for a later date; and below, on Cn. Egnatius, Procos. Macedonia. (Broughton MRR III)
    • ref. 189 (RRC)
  • Quinquevir Finibus Cognoscendis Statuendisque 168 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Appointed to investigate and decide boundary disputes between Pisa and the colony of Luna (Liv. 45.13.10-11; see 180 and 177). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor? 165 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Holleaux suggests a date for Blasio between 175 and 160. He was a Legate in 170 and served on a special commission in 168. He could possibly be one of the uncertain Praetors of 175 or 174, but more probably (see these years) attained his office very soon after 166. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Author of a letter to the Corcyreans containing a copy of a Senatus Consultum (Holleaux, BCH 48 [1924] 389ff.- SEG 3.451). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Monetalis. In MRR 2.436, and Index, 551, refer also to Crawford, RRC[63] 1.239-241, no. 189, 169-158 B.C. Crawford would date his praetorship to the late 140s, but Sherk, RDGE no. 4, p. 39, to 165-160 B.C.; see MRR 1.438, 165 B.C.; but cf. H. B. Mattingly, NC 1969, 103-104, who makes a good case for a later date; and below, on Cn. Egnatius, Procos. Macedonia. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor? c. 140 urbanus (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • p. 741, footnote 143 (Brennan 2000)