Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN2012 P. Cornelius (240) P. f. P. n. Lentulus Sura

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 114?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R175.

  • 70, expelled from Senate (RE)
  • 63, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    Executed as Catilinarian.

Relationships

grandson of
P. Cornelius (202a, Supb. 3.359f.) P. f. Lentulus (pr.? 128) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Dio XLVI 20.5

P. Cornelius (202) L. f. L. n. Lentulus (cos. suff. 162) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Catil. III 10, Cic. Catil. IV 13, Dio XLIV 20.5

son of
P. Cornelius (203) Lentulus (pr. before 90) (RE)
married to
Iulia (543) (daughter of? L. Iulius (142) L. f. Sex. n. Caesar (cos. 90)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Phil. II 14, Cic. Phil. VIII 1

Career

  • Quaestor 81 Hispania (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Verr. 2.1.37; cf. Plut. Cic. 17.2; Ps.-Ascon. 234 Stangl. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor 74 repetundae, Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 4 Magic's acute observation that the trial and acquittal of Terentius Varro took place several months after the notorious iudicium Junianum in 74 places the praetorship of Lentulus Sura in 74 (not 75, where Münzer put it), and shows that he cannot be the governor of Sicily who is mentioned in Pliny (NH 7.55). On the identification of Terentius Varro, see 82, Legates; and 77, Promagistrates. On both questions, see Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor, 2.1125, note 42. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Vell. 2.34.4. A certain Terentius Varro, probably A. Terentius Varro (see 75, Praetors, on Furius; 82, Legates; and 77, Promagistrates, on A. Terentius Varro), was accused before him of extortion in Asia, with Hortensius as (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 751, footnote 372 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 71 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • CIL 12.2.686, 898, 899, 900, 2718-RE 17.2.1423, no. 27; Eutrop. 6.8.1; Chr. 354 (Lentulo et Horesten); Fast. Hyd. (Plendulo et Oreste), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Lentulus, Vell. 2.34.4; Dio 37.30.4; and on Orestes, Cic. Planc. 52. See Degrassi 131, 486f. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Grandson of P. Cornelius Lentulus, Cos. 162 (Cic. Cat. 3. 10; 4.13; Dio 46.20.5; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 203 Stangl). His father may be P. Cornelius Lentulus, RE no. 203. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor 63 Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Praetor a second time, thus rehabilitating himself after his expulsion from the Senate in 70. One of the chief leaders in the conspiracy of Catiline, he signed the letter to the Allobroges, was compelled to abdicate his office, and was put to death (Cic. Cat. 3.4 and 6-16 and 22 and 25; 4.4 and 5 and 10 and 12 and 17; Sull. 16 and 30 and 33 and 53 and 70 and 75-76; Flacc. 95-97; Sall. Cat. 17.3; 32.2; 39.6-40.6; 43.1; 44.1; 47.2-4; 48.4; 50.1; 51.7; 52.17; 55; 57.1; 58.4; Diod. 40.5, in FHG 2.xxvi; Liv. Per. 102; Vell. 2.34.3-4, and 35.3; Lucan 2.543; Quintil. Inst. Or. 5.10.30; Iuven. 10.287; Plut. Cic. 17-22, and 24.1; Caes. 7.4.; Cat. Min. 22.2; App. BC 2.2-6; Flor. 2.18.3-11; Dio 37.30.4-36.4, and 39.1; 38.14.5; 46.20.2 and 5; Jerome Chr. ad ann. 62, p. 154 Helm; Schol. Gron. 284 Stangl). (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 753, footnote 427 (Brennan 2000)

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