Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus (Consul 409 BC)
Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus came from the Cornelier family and was in office during the older Roman Republic in 414 BC. As a consular tribune and 409 BC As consul .
According to the filiation information of the Fasti Capitolini , the father of Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus had the first name Aulus and his grandfather the prenomen Marcus . The first known station of his cursus honorum is his for 414 BC. BC documented consular tribunate. Five years later, 409 BC. BC, he acted as consul, with Lucius Furius Medullinus, who was elected to this office for the second time, as his colleague. The Roman historian Titus Livius states that various annalists he had consulted diverged in their war reports about this year, as well as about what part Cornelius Cossus had in it. So it can only be said that the Romans fought with varying degrees of luck against the central Italian tribe of the Volscians .
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Cornelius 116). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Col. 1292 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Titus Livius 4, 49, 7 (Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus) ; Diodorus 13, 38, 1 ( Τάιος Κορνήλιος ).
- ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 409 BC Chr .: [Corneliu] s A. f. M. n. Coss [u] s ; Livy 4, 54.1 (Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus) ; Diodorus 13, 80, 1 ( Γναῖος Πομπήιος [sic!]).
- ↑ Livy 4:55, 8.
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| SURNAME | Cornelius Cossus, Gnaeus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cossus, Gnaeus Cornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consular tribune 414 BC And consul 409 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 409 BC Chr. |