Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN0698 Cn. Cornelius (73) P. f. Cn. n. Blasio

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 300?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin no. 20.

Relationships

grandfather of
? Cn. Cornelius (74) Blasio (pr. 194) (DPRR Team)

Career

  • Triumphator 270 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Regineis. MRR I.198, Itgenshorst no. 117, Rich no. 116. (Rich 2014)
  • Consul 265 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Only the lower bars of the letters are preserved. L. f. is read in CIL, but Degrassi (40f., 115) follows Mancini in reading P. f. and identifying this Cornelius with the Consul of 270 and 257. See Degrassi, Plate 34, fragment xx. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Fast. Cap. (names entire), Degrassi, 40f., 115, 432f. Marcius, elected for the second time (see 294), sponsored a law against iteration in this office (Val. Max. 4.1.3; Plut. Cor. 1.1). They completed the lustrum in 264 (Liv. Per. 16). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 257 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The notice in Chr. 354 identifies Cornelius with the Consul of 270, whose filiation was P. f. Cn. n., and almost certainly with the Censor of 265. On the cognomen Erranus (i. e. Serranus), which appears late in the Atilian family, see Degrassi 116. It remains uncertain which Atilius was the legendary sower (Serranus) who was called, like Cincinnatus, from his labors, but to a consulship, and celebrated a triumph (Cic. Rosc. Amer. 50; Sest. 72; Val. Max. 4.4.5; Plin. NH 18.20; Serv. ad Aen. 6.844; Symmach. Ep. 1.48; Schol. Gron. 308 Stangl). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Polyb. 1.25.1; Fast. Cap. (A. 's name entire; Cn. [- - - -]); Chr. 354 (Regulo et Blesio II); Fast. Hyd. (Regulo et Blaeso); Chr. Pasc. ({Gr}); Cassiod., with Erranus instead of Regulus; Degrassi 42f., 116, 434f. Atilius celebrated a naval triumph for a victory over the Carthaginians off Tyndaris (Polyb. 1.25.1-6; Act. Tr., Degrassi 76f., 548; cf. Val. Max. 4.4.5; Oros. 4.8.5; Fest. 156 L; Zon. 8.12). Cornelius served in Sicily (Zon. 8.12). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Consul c. 247 (Broughton MRR I)
  • Princeps Senatus c. 247 (Ryan 1998) Expand
    • Fast. Cap., ([- - - -] Clepsina II; Cornelius entire); Act. Tr. ([- - - -] Cornel [- - - -]); Chr. 354 (Clepsina II et Lesio); Cassiod. (C. Genucius et Cn. Cornelius); see Degrassi, 40f., 114, 430f. Genucius is credited by Dion. Hal. (20.16) and Orosius (4.3.3-6) with charge of operations against the Campanians who had seized Rhegium (cf. Polyb. 1.7.8-13, both Consuls; Liv. Per. 15), but Blasio, according to Act. Tr., Degrassi 74f., 546f., was the one who celebrated the triumph; cf. Cesano, Stud. Num. 1.151f. See Tribunes of the Plebs. (Broughton MRR I)

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