Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus (Consular Tribune 406 BC)

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Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus came from the Cornelier family and was in office during the older Roman Republic in 406, 404 and 401 BC. As consular tribune .

Life

According to the filiation of the Fasti Capitolini , the father of Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus used the prenomen Publius and his grandfather the prenomen Aulus . The father may have been with the consular tribunes from 415 BC. BC, Publius Cornelius Cossus , to identify.

Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus was consular tribune three times, first in 406 BC. He is said to have been entrusted with the conduct of business in Rome this year , while his counterparts went against the Volscians . He held his second consular tribunate in 404 BC. And his third finally 401 BC. In his last tribunate he plundered the territory of the Etrurian city of Capena, which was allied with Veji (this was near today 's city of the same name ). 400 BC According to a version handed down by the Roman annalist Gaius Licinius Macer , he, a patrician , is said to have helped his plebeian half-brother Publius Licinius Calvus Esquilinus to be elected consular tribune through his influence.

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  1. Fasti Capitolini ad annum 406 BC Chr .: ... Cossus ; Titus Livius 4, 58, 6 and 4, 59, 1 (Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus) ; in Diodorus (14, 12, 1) Cossus' name is missing, since his gentile name appears twice in the register of the consular tribunes.
  2. Livy 4:59, 1.
  3. Fasti Capitolini ad annum 404 BC Chr .: [… Cos] sus II ; Livy 4, 61, 4 (Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus) ; in Diodorus (14, 19, 1) Cossus' name is missing for the same reason as in the note on his first consular tribunate.
  4. Fasti Capitolini ad annum 401 BC Chr .: [Cn. C] ornelius P. f. A. n. Cossus III ; Livy 5, 10, 1 (Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus II) ; Diodor 14, 44, 1 ( Γναῖος Κορνήλιος ).
  5. ^ Livy 5:12 , 5.
  6. ^ Livy 5:12 , 12.