Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1465 L. Cornelius (224) Cn. f. L. n. Lentulus Lupus

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 199?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
  • Before 124, death (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

son of
Cn. Cornelius (176) L. f. L. n. Lentulus (cos. 201) (RE)
brother of
? Cn. Cornelius (175, 177) Cn. f. L. n. Lentulus (cos. 146) (DPRR Team)

Career

  • Aedilis Curulis 163 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Didasc. Ter. Heaut. Tim. On Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 40, no. 18. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 162 Achaea, Asia, Galatia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • After Demetrius' escape to Syria, these were appointed to examine the condition of Greece; and in Asia, to observe the result of Demetrius' action, the attitude of the other kings, and to settle their disputes with the Galatians (Polyb. 31.15.9-12, and 32-33; Diod. 31.28). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Decemvir Sacris Faciundis? 160 to 141 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Praetor before 158 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Reported a decree of the Senate to the People of Tibur (CIL 1 .2.586- ILS 19). This Cornelius is generally identified with Lupus the Consul of 156, and so must have held the praetorship by 159. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 740 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 156 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Brut. 79; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 50f., 123f., 462f.; Fast. Ant., ib. 160f.; Obseq. 16; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Marcius, Val. Max. 9.3.2. Marcius received command in Dalmatia where, after initial reverses, he captured several towns and besieged Delminium (Liv. Per. 47; Flor. 2.25; App. Illyr. 11; Obseq. 16; cf. Polyb. 32.14.2, who mentions commissioners that were sent to Illyria with Marcius). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul? c. 154 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • He very probably governed a province after his consulship, for he was convicted of res repetundae (Val. Max 6.9.10 refers wrongly to a Lex Caecilia repetundarum, which is usually taken as a mistake for the Lex Calpurnia; see Mommsen, GS 1.16-17; Strafrecht 708, note 3, 729, note 1; and cf. Cic. Brut. 106; Off. 2.75; Festus 360L-285M; Lucilius, 20.607-608, in LCL). But see C. Busacca, Iura 19, 1968, 83-93, who holds that the Lex Caecilia set up a quaestio extraordinaria, through which Lentulus was convicted of res repetundae ca. 154, but which did not involve, like the Lex Calpurnia, the creation of a quaestio perpetua. M. G. Morgan holds, against Zippel and De Sanctis, that Lupus was not the Cornelius mentioned by Polybius (frag. 64 B-W; see Walbank, Comm. Polybius III, p. 748, ad loc.; App. Illyr. 14) who was defeated by the Pannonians, nor the commander who suffered a disaster at the hands of the Scordisci (Historia 23, 1974, 183-216). Xvir s. f. The L. Cornelius Lentulus who in 140 raised the question of bringing an aqueduct to the Capitolium, though termed a praetor in RE nos. 190192, was one of the Xviri s. f. and was acting for the college (Frontin. Aq. 1.7, accepting Schone's emendation pro collegio; cf. Liv. OXy. Per. 54), and may best be identified with the consul of 156 (Sumner, Orators 48). The notices on L. Cornelius Lentulus, Pr. 140, in MRR 1.479, and of any connection with the consul of 130 should be deleted. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Censor 147 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 124, 464f.; Fast. Ant., ib. 160f. Cornelius was elected in spite his previous conviction under the Lex Caecilia (Val. Max. 6.9.10; Fest. 360 L; see 154, on Caecilius Metellus). P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum was probably chosen Princeps Senatus (Diod. 34-35.33.6; Val. Max. 7.5.2; cf. Plut. Aem. 15.2; see Willems, Sénat 1.113, note 3). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Decemvir Sacris Faciundis 140 to after 130 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Bardt (Priester 30) accepts the emendation collegio in Frontin. Aq. 1.7 (see above, Praetors, and note 1), identifies Lepidus and Lentulus as above, and because of the mention of the Sibylline Oracles lists them as Decemviri. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Raised the question of bringing an aqueduct to the Capitol contrary to the Sibylline oracles (Frontin. Aq. 1.7; cf. Liv. Oxy. Per. 54).{480} (Broughton MRR I)
    • He very probably governed a province after his consulship, for he was convicted of res repetundae (Val. Max 6.9.10 refers wrongly to a Lex Caecilia repetundarum, which is usually taken as a mistake for the Lex Calpurnia; see Mommsen, GS 1.16-17; Strafrecht 708, note 3, 729, note 1; and cf. Cic. Brut. 106; Off. 2.75; Festus 360L-285M; Lucilius, 20.607-608, in LCL). But see C. Busacca, Iura 19, 1968, 83-93, who holds that the Lex Caecilia set up a quaestio extraordinaria, through which Lentulus was convicted of res repetundae ca. 154, but which did not involve, like the Lex Calpurnia, the creation of a quaestio perpetua. M. G. Morgan holds, against Zippel and De Sanctis, that Lupus was not the Cornelius mentioned by Polybius (frag. 64 B-W; see Walbank, Comm. Polybius III, p. 748, ad loc.; App. Illyr. 14) who was defeated by the Pannonians, nor the commander who suffered a disaster at the hands of the Scordisci (Historia 23, 1974, 183-216). Xvir s. f. The L. Cornelius Lentulus who in 140 raised the question of bringing an aqueduct to the Capitolium, though termed a praetor in RE nos. 190192, was one of the Xviri s. f. and was acting for the college (Frontin. Aq. 1.7, accepting Schone's emendation pro collegio; cf. Liv. OXy. Per. 54), and may best be identified with the consul of 156 (Sumner, Orators 48). The notices on L. Cornelius Lentulus, Pr. 140, in MRR 1.479, and of any connection with the consul of 130 should be deleted. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Princeps Senatus c. 130 (Ryan 1998) Expand
    • p. 223 (Ryan 1998)

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