Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN2781 L.? Cornelius (219, cf. 217) Lentulus Cruscellio

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Status

• Patrician

Life Dates

• 43, proscribed (Hinard 1985) Expand

  Possibly proscribed? Hinard 43 no. 47

Relationships

son of

L. Cornelius (218) P. f. L. n. Pal.? Lentulus Crus (cos. 49) (RE)

married to

Sulpicia (112) (daughter of? P. Sulpicius (93) P. f. Rufus (pr. 48)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Val. Max. VI 7.3

Career

• Senator - Office Unknown? before 42 (Hinard 1985)
• Legatus (Lieutenant)? 42 Sicilia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • When proscribed, he escaped to Sextus Pompey in Sicily, who, according to Appian, made him a # (4.39; cf. Val. Max. 6.7.3). Perhaps a Legatus pro praetore, like Plinius Rufus; see CIL 11.6058; Groag, Klio 14 (1914) 51; PIR² 2.338, no. 1389. (Broughton MRR II)
• Praetor? after 39 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • See 42, Legates. In CIL 11.6058 a certain Marius calls himself Prefect in the fleet of Cn. Lentulus in Sicily. Groag favors the view that Lentulus was a Legatus pro praetore under Sextus Pompey (see 42, Legates), but he may have returned after 39 and become Praetor in 38 or some subsequent year. (Broughton MRR II)

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