Lucius Cornelius Lentulus (Consul 199 BC)

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Lucius Cornelius Lentulus was a Roman senator , politician and military man at the turn of the 3rd to the 2nd century BC. Chr.

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus belonged to the branch of the Lentuli of the Cornelier family and was the second son of the consul from 237 BC. Chr ,. Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus . He served under Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in the fight against the Carthaginians on the Iberian Peninsula and got after Scipio's recall at the end of 206 BC. BC as its successor a proconsular empire for the further war in Spain, although he had never held an official office before. So he got this empire as a private citizen. 205 BC According to Livius, he and his older brother Gnaeus also held the office of curular aedile . Despite the office, he stayed in Spain this year and the following. The choice to and officiate as an aedile in absentia are very unusual, however, so that there may be confusion with Publius Cornelius Lentulus (praetor in 203 BC). Together with Lucius Manlius Acidinus , he proposed 205 BC. The rebellious chief of the Ilergeten , Indibilis , who fell there. After Lentulus had been extended several times, he left 200 BC. The Iberian theater of war and after his return to Italy was not honored with a triumph for his successes in Spain because of his status as a promagistrate with extraordinary empire . But he was able to achieve that he was granted at least one ovatio .

199 BC Lucius Cornelius Lentulus reached the highest regular office of the Roman Republic , the consulate, at the side of Publius Villius Tappulus . In this role he initially ran the business in Rome . The praetor Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus , located in Northern Italy , was meanwhile beaten with heavy losses during an unauthorized incursion into the insubrian territory , whereupon Lentulus rushed over, sharply criticized Baebius and asked to leave the province. However, Lentulus wore until 198 BC. In northern Italy there were also only historically insignificant battles.

After the end of the Second Macedonian-Roman War , Lentulus was elected by the Senate in 196 BC. As envoy to Antiochus III. sent to the east to mediate in the Seleucid-Ptolemaic disputes over Antiochus' conquest of Ptolemaic possessions in Asia Minor . Lentulus and three members of a Roman ten-man commission operating in Greece met with the Seleucid king in Lysimacheia . The Romans asked Antiochus III to evacuate the Ptolemaic cities they had conquered. The Seleucid ruler had apparently already negotiated with the Alexandrian court and replied to the ignorant Romans in Lysimacheia that he wanted to enter into a friendly relationship with Ptolemy V and even establish family ties with him. When the participants of the conference of Lysimacheia learned that the Egyptian king had died, this later turned out to be incorrect news led to the end of the negotiations. Perhaps Lentulus then went on a trip to Alexandria.

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  1. Titus Livius 28:38, 1.
  2. Livy 29:11 , 12.
  3. ^ Graham V. Sumner: Proconsuls and Provinciae in Spain 218/7 - 196/5 BC. In: Arethusa. Vol. 3, No. 1, 1970, ISSN  0004-0975 , pp. 85-102, here p. 89.
  4. ^ Livius 29, 1ff .; Appian , Iberica 38.
  5. Livy 29:13 , 7; 30, 2, 7; 30, 41, 4f.
  6. Livy 31:20 , 1-7.
  7. Fasti Capitolini ad annum 199 BC Chr .; Livy 31:49, 12; among others
  8. Livy 32, 1, 2f .; 32, 2, 7; 32, 7, 5ff .; 32, 8, 3; 32, 9, 5; 32, 26, 2.
  9. Polybios , 18.49-52; Livy 33, 39-41; Appian, Syriaca 3; to Günther Hölbl : History of the Ptolemaic Empire. Politics, ideology and religious culture from Alexander the great to the Roman conquest. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-534-10422-6 , p. 124 f. and Werner Huss : Egypt in the Hellenistic Period. 332-30 BC Chr. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 , p. 499 f.