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CORN0688 L. Cornelius (210) Ti. f. Ser. n. Lentulus Caudinus

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Status

• Patrician

Relationships

son of

Ti. Cornelius (cf. 210) Lentulus (father of L. Cornelius (210) Ti. f. Ser. n. Lentulus Caudinus (cos. 275)) (RE)

father of

P. Cornelius (213) L. f. Ti. n. Lentulus Caudinus (cos. 236) (RE)

L. Cornelius (211) L. f. Ti. n. Lentulus Caudinus (cos. 237) (RE)

Career

• Consul 275 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Fast. Cap. (names entire); Act. Tr.; Chr. 354; Eutrop. 2.14; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Curius, Plut. Pyrr. 25.2. See Degrassi, 40f., 114, 430f. Curius administered the final defeat to King Pyrrhus near Malventum, and celebrated a triumph over the Samnites and the King (on the levy and the battle, Varro, Sat. Men. 140 Riese; Liv. Per. 14; Dion. Hal. 20.10-12; Val. Max. 6.3.4; Frontin. Str. 2.2.1; 4.1.14; Plut. Pyrr. 25.1-5; Cat. Mai. 2.1; Flor. 1.13.25; Gell. 10.16.16; 14.1.24; Auct. Vir. Ill. 33.5; 35.8; Oros. 4.2.3-6; Zon. 8.6; on his triumph, Act. Tr., Degrassi, 74f., 546; Cic. Mur. 31; Pis. 58; Sen. 55; Liv. 45.38.11; Senec. Brev. Vit. 13.3; Plut. Cat. Mai. 2.1; Flor. 1.13.26-28; Apul. Apol. 17; Eutrop. 2.14; Zon. 8.6). He used his personal share of the booty (Plin. NH 16.185; Auct. Vir. Ill. 33.8-9; cf. Val. Max. 4.3.5) to build the Old Anio aqueduct (Front. Aq. 1.6). Cornelius campaigned against the Samnites, from whom he probably took Caudium, and the Lucanians, and celebrated a triumph (Act. Tr., Degrassi, 74f., 546; Plin. NH 33.38; Eutrop. 2.14; cf. Plut. Pyrr. 25.1-2). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Beloch (RG 467) suggests the reading rege Pyrrho in Act. Tr., but Plutarch (Pyrr. 25.1-2) shows that Cornelius was in Lucania and that Pyrrhus, while proceeding against Curius, sent a detachment to keep him occupied there (Weuilleumier, Tarente 134f.; Frank, CAH 7.653; and cf. Flor. 1.13.11; Frontin. Str. 4.1.14; Oros. 4.2.3, on the scene of the main battle with Pyrrhus). Degrassi (546) reports that the space in Act. Tr. fits better with Lucaneis than rege Pyrrho. (Broughton MRR I)
• Triumphator 275 (Rich 2014) Expand
  • Triumph de Samnitibus et Lucaneis. MRR I.195, Itgenshorst no. 113, Rich no. 112. (Rich 2014)

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