CORN4703 -. Cornelius (5)

Life Dates

  • 44, death (Broughton MRR II)

Career

  • Scriba 82 (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2) Expand
    • Scriba under Sulla's dictatorship and Quaestor Urbanus under Caesar's (Cic. Off. 2.29; cf. Sall. Hist. 1.55.17 M). (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2)
  • Scriba 81 (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2) Expand
    • Scriba under Sulla's dictatorship and Quaestor Urbanus under Caesar's (Cic. Off. 2.29; cf. Sall. Hist. 1.55.17 M). (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2)
  • Quaestor 44 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2) Expand
    • Scriba under Sulla's dictatorship and Quaestor Urbanus under Caesar's (Cic. Off. 2.29; cf. Sall. Hist. 1.55.17 M). (Broughton MRR II Appendix 2)
    • Q. Cornelius (52), Q. urb. 44. Syme (CPh 50, 1955, 134) identifies nos. 5 and 52, while accepting the possibility of identifying all three. To identify nos. 5 and 51 is reasonable since minor pontifices were once termed scribae pontificii (Liv. 22.57.3). Cadoux objects to identifying nos. 5 and 52 because the word fuit in Cic. Off. 2.29, written in 44, is against a quaestorship in that year, but Sumner notes that, since Cicero was writing in October of 44 and in November (Att. 15.13a.2; 16.11.4), he could have held the office and died before autumn (Phoenix 25, 1971, 368). See MRR 2.135 and 325. (Broughton MRR III)