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CORN2356 L. Cornelius (218) P. f. L. n. Pal.? Lentulus Crus

Cos. 49. If, as Sumner suggests, he was a younger brother of Lentulus Spinther (238). Cos. 57, his filiation should be P. f. L. n. (Orators 140-144); cf. T. P. Wiseman, JRS 65, 1975, 168. See below, on Lentulus Spinther. (Broughton MRR III)

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 98?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R211.

  • 48, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    Murdered.

Relationships

grandson of
L. Cornelius (192) P. f. L. n. Lentulus (pr. 140, cos. 130?) (Badian 1990)
son of
? P. Cornelius (cf. 238) Lentulus (father of? P. Cornelius (238) P. f. L. n. Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57)) (RE)
brother of
? P. Cornelius (238) P. f. L. n. Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) (DPRR Team)
father of
L.? Cornelius (219, cf. 217) Lentulus Cruscellio (pr.? after 39) (RE)

Career

  • Praetor 58 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Pis. 77; QF 1.2.16. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 754, footnote 452 (Brennan 2000)
  • Repulsa 51 (Pina Polo 2012) Expand
    • (XV vir s. f.). pp. 65-72 (Pina Polo 2012)
  • Consul 49 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • L. Cornelius P. f. – n. Lentulus Crus Pat. (218) Pr. 58 CIL 12 .2.967, cf. 669; Grueber, CRRBM 1.504; 2.466f., 558; Cic. Fam. 7.3.1; Att. 15.3.1; Phil. 2.51; Hirt. in Caes. BG 8.50.4; Bell. Alex. 68.2; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 132, 496f.; Vell. 2.49.1; Joseph. AJ 14.228 and 238; App. BC 2.33; Flor. 2.13.15; Dio 41, Index, and 1.1; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Schol. Bob. 89 Stangl; cf. Plut. Caes. 29-31, who confuses C. and M. Marcellus. They were elected as anti-Caesarians (Hirt. in Caes. BG 8.50.4; Suet. Iul. 29.2), and supported the Pompeian interest in the Senate meetings early in January and in the subsequent negotiations, and left Italy even before Pompey (Cic. Att. 7.12-9.9, passim, esp. 7.21, and 24. 8.12A; Fam. 16.11.3; Caes. BC 1.1-6, passim, esp. 1.4-6, and 14: and 25; Vell. 2.49.1-50.2, and 53.1; Lucan 2.645-649; Petron. 124, lines 288-289; Suet. Iul. 29.2; 34.1; Plut. Pomp. 59, and 61-62; Caes. 30-31; 33.4; 34.1; 35.1; Ant. 5.5; App. BC 2.33, and 36-37, and 39; Dio 41.1, and 3, and 6, and 12; Eutrop. 6.18.2-3; Oros. 6.15.2 and 4), thus foiling Caesar's attempt to make contact with Lentulus through the younger Balbus (Cic. Att. 8.9.4, and 11. 5; 9. 6. 1). Lentulus actively recruited troops in Asia (Caes. BC 3.4.1; Joseph. AJ 14.228, 232, 234 236, and 238). Both Consuls and the anti-Caesarian government as a whole wintered at Thessalonica (Dio 41.43; see Promagistrates, on Pompey). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Monetalis 49 (RRC) Expand
    • ref. 445 (RRC)
  • Proconsul 48 Achaea (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (Cic. Fam. 10.32.3, cf. Dio 41.43.2-3). He met Caesar's Envoy the younger Balbus in Pompey's camp at Dyrrachium (Vell. 2.51.3; cf. Cic. Fam. 10.32.3). He was present, perhaps also in command of one wing, at Pharsalus (App. BC 2.76; cf. Lucan 7.218). Rhodes refused to admit him in his flight and he was killed shortly after Pompey in Egypt (Cic. Fam. 12.14.3; Caes. BC 3.102.5, and 104.3; Vell. 2.53.1; Val. Max. 1.8.9; Lucan 8.328-455; Plut. Pomp. 73.6; 80.4; Oros. 6.15.28). See Cic. Att. 11.6.6. (Broughton MRR II)

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