Lucius Cornelius Lentulus (Consul 327 BC)

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Lucius Cornelius Lentulus was a Roman senator , politician, and military officer.

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus is the first known representative of the branch of the Lentuli of the Cornelier family . 327 BC BC he held the office of consul together with Quintus Publilius Philo . In this capacity he led the Romans in the fight against the Samnites while his counterpart was besieging Palaeopolis.

According to a fictional story handed down by Livius , he is said to be in 321 BC. After the shameful defeat of the Romans at Caudium during the 2nd Samnite War , they advised capitulation. 320 BC According to the Roman tradition, Lentulus was one of three consecutive dictators appointed this year .

The earlier assumption that he wore the Cognomen Caudinus is rejected today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Livy 8.22.8; Diodorus 17,110.1 and 17,112.1; T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. 15, 1). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, p. 145, (Reprinted by Press of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 1968).
  2. ↑ Livy 8.22.8; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 15.5-10
  3. ↑ Livy 9: 4, 7-16.
  4. ↑ Livy 9: 15: 9-10; To the offices of the year 320 BC Compare: T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. 15, 1). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, (Reprinted by Press of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 1968).
  5. ↑ Rudolf Hanslik in: Der Kleine Pauly Vol. 1, Sp. 1310.

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personal data
SURNAME Cornelius Lentulus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lentulus, Lucius Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 327 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.