Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1568 L. Cornelius (192) P. f. L. n. Lentulus

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 130, death (Broughton MRR I)

Relationships

grandfather of
L. Cornelius (218) P. f. L. n. Pal.? Lentulus Crus (cos. 49) (Badian 1990)
P. Cornelius (238) P. f. L. n. Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) (Badian 1990)
? L. Cornelius (194, 195) Lentulus (pr. c. 88) (Brennan 2000)

Career

  • Praetor 140 Rome? (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • He is nowhere termed Praetor, though stated to be so in RE. Either this Lentulus or the one who was Praetor in Sicily in 137 may be identified with the Consul of 130, since the praenomen of the Praetor of 137 remains unknown. (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)
  • Praetor 137 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The names of the series of Praetors who held command in Sicily during the slave revolt until a Consul was sent in 134 depends on the unsatisfactory list given by Florus (2.7.7): L. Plautius Hypsaeus, Calpurnius Piso (probably Frugi, the Consul of 133), Cornelius Lentulus (perhaps the Consul of 130, but see 139, Praetors), Manlius (possibly A. Manlius Torquatus, RE no. 2, cf. 74), and P. Popillius Laenas (probably the Consul of 132). The order in which they held office is difficult to determine. It is not a certainty that Florus follows any particular order, but on the assumption that his list is arranged in the reverse order of time, Stella Maranca (315) and Wehrmann (11) are inclined to place Popillius in 139 and proceed back to Plautius in 135. The direct order is perhaps somewhat preferable, for Popillius belonged to a family whose members usually advanced rapidly from praetorship to consulship, but the evidence is inadequate. What is certain is that these men preceded the Consul Fulvius in 134. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Münzer (RE no. 172) is inclined to identify him with Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, and to consider that L. Cornelius the Praetor of 140 should more probably be identified with the Consul of 130. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 130. Pr. 137? in Sicily. On the praetors of Sicily during the First Slave War, see below, on L. Plautius Hypsaeus (20). For his filiation, see Sumner, Orators 143, with stemma.[65] (Broughton MRR III)
    • ca. 136? see p. 741, footnote 147 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul? 130 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 126, 470f. (L. [- - - -]); Fast. Ant., ib. 162f. M. Perp[erna - - - -]); Chr. 354 (Lentulo et Nepote); Fast. Hyd. Lentulo et Perperna), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod. (App. Claudius et{502} M. Perpenna); and on Perperna, I. v. Priene 108, lines 223ff., 109, lines 92ff.; Val. Max. 3.4.5; Obseq. 28. Lentulus apparently died in office. Perperna succeeded Mucianus in the command in Asia against Aristonicus, whom he captured at Stratonikeia of Lydia (I. v. Priene 108 and 109, above; Liv. Per. 59; Strabo 14.1.38; Val. Max. 3.4.5; Vell. 2.4.1, and 38.5; Flor. 1.35.6; Iustin. 36.4.9; Eutrop. 4.20; Oros. 5.10.4-5; see Holleaux, REA 21 [1919] 1ff., and 129, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 130. Pr. 137? in Sicily. On the praetors of Sicily during the First Slave War, see below, on L. Plautius Hypsaeus (20). For his filiation, see Sumner, Orators 143, with stemma.[65] (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 381. Sumner (143) thinks him a son of the cos. suff. 162 - a possibility but no more. (Badian 1990)

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