Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN2300 Faustus Cornelius (377) L. f. L. n. Sulla

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Cic. Vat. 13.32, Macrob. 2.1.8ff, Eutrop. 6.23 ("L. Cornelius Faustus")

Life Dates

  • After 90?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
  • 46, death - violent (DPRR Team) Expand

    Executed by Caesar. Liv. Per. 114, Flor. 2.13.90, Dio 43.12.2, Caes. Afr. 79-86, 89, 93-96, App. BC 2.14.96-100, Plut. Caes. 53, Plut. Cato 58.7-73.

Relationships

son of
2 Caecilia (134) Metella (daughter of L. Caecilius (91) L. f. Q. n. Metellus Delmaticus (cos. 119)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Scaur. 20C, Asc. Scaur. 28C

4 L. Cornelius (392) L. f. P. n. Sulla Felix ('Epaphroditus') (cos. 88) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Cornel. 73C, Asc. Scaur. 20C, Asc. Scaur. 28C, Dio XL 50.2, Dio XXXVII 51.3, Eutr. VI 23.2, Lucan. II 464f., Schol. Bern. Lucan II 464 p79 Usener, Plut. Cato min. 3.1, Plut. Cic. 27.3, Plut. Pomp. 42.3

brother of
? Cornelia (412) (daughter of L. Cornelius (392) L. f. P. n. Sulla Felix ('Epaphroditus') (cos. 88)) (DPRR Team)
? Cornelia (436) = Fausta Cornelia (daughter of L. Cornelius (392) L. f. P. n. Sulla Felix ('Epaphroditus') (cos. 88)) (DPRR Team)
? Cornelia? (448) Postuma (daughter of L. Cornelius (392) L. f. P. n. Sulla Felix ('Epaphroditus') (cos. 88)) (DPRR Team)
? M. Aemilius (141) M. f. M. n. Scaurus (pr. 56) (DPRR Team)
? Aemilia (154) (daughter of M. Aemilius (140) M. f. L. n. Cam. Scaurus (cos. 115)) (DPRR Team)
? M. Aemilius (137) Scaurus (leg lieut.? 102) (DPRR Team)
married to
Pompeia (54) (daughter of Cn. Pompeius (31) Cn. f. Sex. n. Clu. Magnus (cos. 70)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Dio XLII 13.3, Eutr. VI 23.2, Plut. Pomp. 47.6(4)

Career

  • Tribunus Militum? 63 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Served under Pompey, and was first over the wall at Jerusalem (Joseph. BJ 1.149 and 154; cf. AJ 14.66 and 73). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Augur? 60 to 58 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Augur 57 to 46 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Augur before 57 (Dio 39.17; the lituus on his coins (ca. 64 B.C.) may refer to his father's office, Grueber, CRRBM 1.472). (Broughton MRR II)
    • A probable member of the college of Augurs on the eve of the death of Hortensius. (Broughton MRR II)
    • See 57, Augurs. Elected before Lentulus Spinther. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Monetalis 56 (RRC) Expand
    • Monetalis 56 and quaestor 54. Sydenham dates his SC coins to 62 (CRR 146, nos. 882-884), but H. B. Mattingly to 54, holding that they refer to the celebration of the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae at Praeneste by the quaestor urbanus (NC 16, 1956, 200f.); but see Crawford, RRC 1.449-451, no. 426, who dates his coinage to 56. Enter this reference in MRR 2.437, and Index, 557. (Broughton MRR III)
    • ref. 426 (RRC)
  • Quaestor 54 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Ascon. 20, 28 C; Grueber, CRRBM 1.489f. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Monetalis 56 and quaestor 54. Sydenham dates his SC coins to 62 (CRR 146, nos. 882-884), but H. B. Mattingly to 54, holding that they refer to the celebration of the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae at Praeneste by the quaestor urbanus (NC 16, 1956, 200f.); but see Crawford, RRC 1.449-451, no. 426, who dates his coinage to 56. Enter this reference in MRR 2.437, and Index, 557. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proquaestor Pro Propraetore 49 Macedonia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Pro quaestore (Cic. Att. 9.1.4); Proquaestor pro praetore (IG 9.1.143–ILS 8778, #). The proposal to send him to Mauretania was vetoed (see Tribunes of the Plebs, Marcius Philippus). He recruited troops for Pompey and joined him in Epirus (Cic. Att. 8.3.7, and 12A.3; see 48, Promagistrates). On his title, see above, on L. Antonius. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proquaestor Pro Propraetore 48 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proquaestor pro praetore (see 49, Promagistrates). He was active in Macedonia in 48, where he opposed Domitius Calvinus, and fled to Africa after Pharsalus (Dio 41.51.3; 42.13.3). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proquaestor Pro Propraetore? 47 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proquaestor pro praetore (see 49, and 48, Promagistrates), who probably kept his rank in Africa (see 46, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Promagistrate? 46 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • See 49-47, Promagistrates. He was captured, while fleeing to Spain, by Sittius and put to death (Bell. Afr. 87.8; 95; Liv. Per. 114; Suet. Iul. 75; Flor. 2.13.90; Eutrop. 6.23.2; Auct. Vir. Ill. 78.9; Oros. 6.15.5; cf. App. BC 2.100). See Legates, on Afranius. (Broughton MRR II)

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