Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN2717 L. Cornificius (5) L. f.

Relationships

son of
? L. Cornificius (4) (sen. 52) (RE)

Career

  • Tribunus Plebis? 43 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • The accuser of Brutus in the trials instituted under the Lex Pedia (see above, Consuls; Plut. Brut. 27.3-5; cf. Vell. 2.69.5). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 35. Tr. pl. 43. His tribunate, like that of Agrippa, depends on Niccolini's view (FTP 355) that they were tribunes when Cornificius prosecuted Brutus and Agrippa Cassius. This is improbable, since the actions were apparently taken before a quaestio. See below, on Agrippa. Consul 35. In MRR 2.406, refer also to ILLRP 1271b. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 38 Italia, Sicilia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • No title preserved. Commander of a fleet under Octavian (probably a Legate; see 36, Legates), he brought a fleet from Ravenna to Tarentum (App. BC 5.80), and in the naval battle at the Sicilian straits rammed the flagship of Sextus Pompey's Lieutenant Demochares (App. BC 5.86; cf. Liv. Per. 128; see above, Triumviri R. P. C., on Octavian). See PIR² 2.373, no. 1503; De Laet no. 151. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 36 Sicilia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Legate under Octavian (Vell. 2.79.4) in command of the three legions which landed at Tauromenium and were cut off. He saved them by means of a hazardous march to Agrippa near Mylae (App. BC 5.111-115; Dio 49.5-7; cf. Vell. 2.79.4). See PIR² 2.373, no. 1503; De Laet no. 15 1. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Consul 35 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • BCH 54 (1930) 490f.; names supplied in SC de, Aphrodisiensibus (Viereck, Sermo Graec. p. VII, and addenda to no. 19, p. 40)" office-xref="; Fast. Mag. Vic., Degrassi 283, 288; ibid. 136, 508f.; Dio, 49, Index, and 18.6, and 33.1; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Cornificiums, NS 1933, 331, no. 421; on Pompeius, see D.-G. 4.324, no. 18; on Cornificius, PIR² 2.373, no. 1503; Do Laet no. 151. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 35. Tr. pl. 43. His tribunate, like that of Agrippa, depends on Niccolini's view (FTP 355) that they were tribunes when Cornificius prosecuted Brutus and Agrippa Cassius. This is improbable, since the actions were apparently taken before a quaestio. See below, on Agrippa. Consul 35. In MRR 2.406, refer also to ILLRP 1271b. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 34 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Succeeded T. Statilius Taurus in Africa, almost certainly as Proconsul (see 33, Promagistrates). See PIR² 2.373, no. 1503; De Laet no. 15 1. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 33 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Africa (see 34, and 32, Promagistrates). See PIR² 2.373, no. 1503; De Laet no. 151. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Triumphator 33 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph ex Africa. MRR II.419, Itgenshorst no. 286 (33/32), Rich no. 287 (33). (Rich 2014)
  • Proconsul 32 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Africa, he celebrated a triumph ex Africa on December 3 (Fast. Barb., Degrassi 342f., 570, without the number of the year). He rebuilt the temple of Diana on the Aventine (Suet. Aug. 29.5; cf. CIL 6.4305-ILS 1732; and see Shipley, MAAR 9 [1931] 30-32). See PIR² 2.373, no. 1503; De Laet no. 151; and above, on Claudius Pulcher. (Broughton MRR II)

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