Cornelius Bocchus

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Cornelius Bocchus was a Roman historian. He is cited as a source by Solinus as Bocchus in three places, and by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis historia under the name of Cornelius Bocchus as an authority on the culture of the Iberian Peninsula. The identity of the two authors was postulated by Theodor Mommsen , who saw in Cornelius Bocchus the author of a historical work and several special publications on Spain. No more of these works has survived than the quotations from Solinus and Pliny.

The name L. Cornelius C. f. Bocchus appears in two Lusitanian inscriptions ( CIL 02, 35 and CIL 02, 5184 ) and denotes a Flemish (priest) and military tribune of the III. Legion. It is not clear whether both inscriptions refer to the author Cornelius Bocchus or are to be ascribed to different, related persons. The further career of the military tribune were the offices of praefectus fabrum , pontifex perpetuus and flamen perpetuus at community level. Later he rose to Flemish the entire province of Lusitania. There he was at the same time prefectus Caesarum until .

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SURNAME Bocchus, Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman historian and author, perhaps also Flemish and military tribune
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 1st century