Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1474 Cn. Cornelius (175, 177) Cn. f. L. n. Lentulus

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Status

• Patrician

Relationships

son of

Cn. Cornelius (176) L. f. L. n. Lentulus (cos. 201) (RE)

brother of

? L. Cornelius (224) Cn. f. L. n. Lentulus Lupus (cos. 156) (DPRR Team)

father of

? -. Cornelius (172) Lentulus (pr. 137, cos. 130?) (Zmeskal 2009)

grandfather of

? Cn. Cornelius (178) Cn. f. Cn. n. Lentulus (cos. 97) (DPRR Team)

Career

• Legatus (Ambassador) 161 Cyrenaica (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • C. appears nowhere else as a praenomen of the Cornelii Lentuli. Cn. therefore is an attractive emendation. See Münzer, RE. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Sent to Cyrene to inform Ptolemy VII of the end of Rome's alliance with Ptolemy VI (Polyb. 31.20.4). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Leg., amb., 161. In MRR 2.444, refer also to Diod. 31.23. Perhaps identifiable with RE no. 175. (Broughton MRR III)
• Praetor before 148 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • The latest possible date for his praetorship. (Broughton MRR I)
  • p. 737 (Brennan 2000)
• Consul 146 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Cic. Att. 13.33.3; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 124, 466 f. (Cn. Cor[nelius - - - -] Lentulus; Mummius entire); Fast. Ant., ib. 160f. ([- - - -Le]nt., L. Mummi. L. f. L. n.); Vell. 1.12.5; Censorin. DN 17.11; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Oros. 4.23.1; 5.3.1; Cassiod. Mummius arrived in his province of Achaea only after Metellus had won important victories in Central Greece. He destroyed the Achaean army at the Isthmus, sacked Corinth, and reduced the other Achaean cities. In accordance with a decree of the Senate he destroyed Corinth and confiscated its land, and turned with the aid of a senatorial commission to the organization of Achaea (CIL 1 .2.626-632; IG 2 4.2.28; Polyb. 39.8.6, cf. 3.3; Cic. Att. 13.4.1, 5.1, 6a, 30.2, 32.3, and 33.3; Verr. 2.1.55, and 4.4; Off. 2.76; Liv. Per. 52, and Oxy. Per. 52; Strabo 8.6.23; Trog. Prol. 34; Vell. 1.12.1 and 5, and 13.1; 2.128.2; Val. Max. 7.5.4, cf. 2.7.1; Plin. NH 34.6, and 12; 35.151; Frontin. Str. 4.3.15;{466} Suet. Galba 3.4; Plut. Mar. 1.1; Gell. 10.16.17; Flor. 1.32.5-7; Pausan. 5.10.5; 7.15.1, and 16.1-10; Censor. DN 17.11; Iustin. 34.2.1; Eutrop. 4.14.1; Auct. Vir. Ill. 60.1-3; Serv. ad Aen. 1.284; Oros. 4.23.1; 5.3.1 and 5). Since his title appears as {Gr}, his dedications at Thebes, Thespiae, perhaps at Oropus, and other inscriptions referring to his activities in Greece should probably be dated in this year (IG 2 4.2.306; IG 5.2.77; 7.433, 1808, 2478, 2478a; {Gr}. 13 [1930-31] 106-118; I. v. Olymp. 278-281, 319 [SIG(3) 676], 320; cf. SIG(3) 683). (Broughton MRR I)
  • 1 Note also the Cn. Cornelius named in the Bambinus Ms of the Didasc. Ter. Heaut. Tim., similarly the L. Mummius named in the Calliopian recension of the Didasc. Ter. Eun. (Dziatzko, RhM 21 [1866] 69 and 66 resp.). (Broughton MRR I)

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