Decemvir Sacris Faciundis?
before 213 to 173
(Broughton MRR I)
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This Decemvir, who died in 173 (Liv. 42.10.6), is probably to be identified with one or other of two Cornelii Lentuli (nos. 187 and 188 in RE). The first of these was Praetor in 211, and Legate of Marcellus in 209, the other Curule Aedile in 205 and Consul in 199. Willems combines them in the person of one senator (1.311f.), but Bardt (4) questions the holding of a curule aedileship after the praetorship (see Seidel, 28, note 2). (Broughton MRR I)
L. Cornelius Lentulus succeeded C. Papirius Maso. Liv. 25.2.2. The story that Scipio won election both for himself and his brother is intrinsically improbable, and despite the authority of Polybius, (10.4-5), has been generally rejected (E. Meyer, Kl. Schr. 2.430, note 4, and 431, note 1; Seidel 22f.). See 195, Aediles. (Broughton MRR I)
A. Postumius Albinus (Luscus) succeeded L. Cornelius Lentulus. Liv. 42.10.6. On Lentulus, see 213, note 8; on Postumius, Münzer, Bull. Com., 67 (1939) 27-30; Lübker, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)