Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN0923 P. Cornelius (383) Sulla

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • Before 239?, birth (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

grandson of
? P. Cornelius (302) Cn. f. P. n. Rufinus (cos. 290) (Brennan 2000)
son of
P. Cornelius (382) P. f. Sulla (flam. Dial.? after 275?) (RE)
father of
Ser. Cornelius (2, 388) Sulla (pr. 175) (RE)
P. Cornelius (384) Sulla (pr. 186) (RE)

Career

  • Decemvir Sacris Faciundis? 215 to 213 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Decemvir Sacris Faciundis after 213 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Praetor 212 urbanus, inter peregrinos, Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • On the cognomen Sulla, see Münzer, RE s. v. "Cornelius," col. 1513-1515; D.- G. 2.362, note 11. Macrobius is mistaken in attributing it first to this man: see below, Decemviri s. f. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Investigated the Carmina Marcia and held the first Ludi Apollinares (Liv. 25.12.3-15; 27.23.5; Fest. 438 L; Macrob. Sat. 1.17.27; cf. Mommsen, Str. 2.236). See also Liv. 25.7.5, 12.1, 15.4, 19.10, 22.4 and 11, and 41.8. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 727 (Brennan 2000)

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