Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1792 Cn. Cornelius (178) Cn. f. Cn. n. Lentulus

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Status

• Patrician

Relationships

grandson of

? Cn. Cornelius (175, 177) Cn. f. L. n. Lentulus (cos. 146) (Badian 1990)

son of

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

father of

? P. Cornelius (140) Dolabella (pr. 69) (Brennan 2000)

? Cn. Cornelius (216) Cn. f. Cn. n. Lentulus Clodianus (cos. 72) (Badian 1990)

adoptive father of

? Cn. Cornelius (216) Cn. f. Cn. n. Lentulus Clodianus (cos. 72) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

• Praetor before 99 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • The latest dates possible for their consulships under the Lex Villia. (Broughton MRR I)
  • p. 743 (Brennan 2000)
• Consul 97 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • CIL 12.2.702, 703, SIG³ 726-1. de Delos 4.1.1757; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f., 128, 478f.; Plin. NH 10.5; 30.12- Obseq. 48; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Crassus, Cic. Att. 12.24; perhaps also SIG³ 826K (but see 116, Consuls). Under these Consuls a decree of the Senate forbade human sacrifice (Plin. NH 30.12; cf. Plut. RQ 83; Cichorius, RS 6ff.). Crassus became governor of Farther Spain (see 96-93, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR II)

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