Faustus Cornelius Sulla

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Faustus Cornelius Sulla (* before 86 BC; † 46 BC in Mauritania ) was the son of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix and Caecilia Metella . After the death of his parents, he and his twin sister Cornelia Fausta were raised by Lucius Licinius Lucullus .

Faustus Sulla served in 63 BC. BC, probably as a military tribune , under his father-in-law Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, and was the first Roman to climb the wall when he stormed the Temple of Jerusalem . He organized 60 BC Games in honor of his father and, as a mint master (probably 56 BC), had coins minted to celebrate his father and father-in-law. Faustus Sulla was born in 54 BC. Chr. Quaestor . 52 BC As a curator he was supposed to take care of the reconstruction of the Hostilia Curia, which burned down during unrest . Faustus bought the historian Timagenes of Alexandria free.

After the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC In BC Faustus Sulla recruited troops as Proquaestor with the Empire of a Praetor , which he brought to Pompey in Epirus . He kept his command in the following year and fought in Macedonia against the Caesar general Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus . After Pompey's defeat in the battle of Pharsalus , he fled to North Africa via Patras . When Caesar met his opponents there in 46 BC. Defeated in the Battle of Thapsus in BC , Sulla tried to escape to Spain with his wife Pompeia and Lucius Afranius , but was captured by Publius Sittius and executed a few days later. Pompeia and the couple's children were spared on Caesar's orders.

Since 57 BC at the latest Until his death Faustus was augur .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Flavius ​​Josephus , Jüdischer Krieg , 1, 149 and 154; Jewish antiquities 14, 66 and 73.
  2. ↑ Cassius Dio 37, 51, 4.
  3. ↑ Michael Crawford, Roman republican conage . Oxford University Press, London 1974, Volume 1, pp. 449-451.
  4. ↑ Asconius Pedianus 20.
  5. ↑ Cassius Dio 40, 50, 2.
  6. ↑ Suda , tau 588 .
  7. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero , ad Atticum 9, 1, 4 .
  8. ^ Inscriptiones Graecae 9, 1, 143 .
  9. ↑ Cicero, ad Atticum 8, 3, 7 .
  10. ^ Cassius Dio 41, 51, 3.
  11. ↑ Cassius Dio 42, 13, 3.
  12. ^ [Caesar], de bello Africo , 95; Titus Livius , Perioche 114; Suetonius , Caesar 75, 3; [ Aurelius Victor ], de viris illustribus 78, 9.
  13. ↑ Cassius Dio 39, 17, 2.
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius Sulla, Faustus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sulla, Faustus Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Son of the Roman dictator Sulla
DATE OF BIRTH before 86 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 46 BC Chr.
Place of death Mauritania