Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (Consul)

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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (* approx. 114 BC) was a Roman senator , politician and military officer of the 1st century BC. Chr.

Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus belonged to the Lentuli branch of the Cornelier family by adoption . Originally he came from a plebeian family, as evidenced by a clothed tribunate . Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus adopted him. 89 BC He fought under Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the alliance war . Probably in the following year he was a mint master and had four different types of coins minted (one denarius, one quinar, one ace and one semis). 82 BC BC Clodianus belonged to the group of followers of Sulla who returned to Rome with him after the civil war. No later than 75 BC He was praetor .

Together with Lucius Gellius Publicola he dressed in 72 BC. The consulate . In this function he introduced a law that declared Sulla's civil rights awards to be legally valid. He also intervened against the propaetor of Sicily Gaius Verres , who exploited the province in a particularly shameless manner. Clodianus did not prove himself as a military leader. He suffered a bitter defeat against the rebellious slaves under Spartacus .

Nevertheless, he was with his former colleague in the Consulate Publicola in 70 BC. Chr. To censor selected. In their office both expelled 64 senators from the Senate. Three years later he served under Pompey as his legate in the pirate war . The following year he supported Pompey again when he supported Rogatio , brought in by Manilius , which provided that Pompey received supreme command of the Roman army in the east. Clodianus was the patron saint of the cities of Oropos and Temnos . He was also a gifted speaker. Clodianus' son of the same name was also a Roman politician.

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Footnotes

  1. Marcus Tullius Cicero : Brutus : 230
  2. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 3: Supplement (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 3). Scholars Press, Atlanta GA 1986, ISBN 0-89130-811-3 , p. 67.
  3. ^ Roman Republican Coinage 345
  4. ^ Rainer Albert, The Coins of the Roman Republic, No. 1205–1208
  5. Marcus Tullius Cicero : Brutus 308; 312.
  6. Cicero: pro L. Balbo 19; 32-33.
  7. ^ Sallust : Histories 3,106.
  8. ^ Cicero: pro lege Manilia 68.
  9. Cicero: per L. Valerio Flacco 45.
  10. Cicero: Brutus 230; 234.