Cossus Cornelius Lentulus (Consul 1 BC)
Cossus Cornelius Lentulus was a Roman politician and senator and lived around the turn of the Christian era .
Lentulus was a son of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus , consul in 18 BC. In the year 1 BC He became the ordinary consul at the side of Lucius Calpurnius Piso "Augur" . Either from 6 to 8 or from 5 to 7 he was proconsul of the province of Africa for two years . Here he was successful against the Gaetulians and Musulamians , for which he was honored with the triumph insignia and the nickname Gaetulicus . After Augustus' death he became a close confidante of the new emperor Tiberius . From 33 to 36 he officiated as Praefectus urbi .
The Roman philosopher and civil servant Seneca , a contemporary of Cossus, called him “a man, serious, sedate, but absorbed in wine and dripping with it, to such an extent that he had once come out of the Senate, into which he had come from a feast , overwhelmed by death-like sleep. ” After Seneca, Tiberius wrote him “ Nonetheless, many things with his own hand that he did not even want to entrust to his ministers. ” For Seneca, Cossus was an example of a person who held office despite personal weaknesses impeccably managed: "Cossus has not slipped into either a private secret or a political one" .
Lentulus was a member of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis priesthood . His sons were Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus and Cossus Cornelius Lentulus .
literature
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani , 2nd edition, C 1381
- Edmund Groag : Cornelius 182 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Col. 1364 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 83.15.
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| SURNAME | Cornelius Lentulus, Cossus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lentulus, Cossus Cornelius; Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, Cossus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician and military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 36 |