Named in a decree of the Senate quoted by Josephus (AJ 14.219). (Broughton MRR II)
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)