Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus († around 48 BC ) was a Roman senator , politician and military.
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus belonged to the Lentuli branch of the Cornelier family . He was one of Caesar's opponents . It is possible that he already served under Pompey in Spain. 61 BC He was one of the main accusers in the trial against Publius Clodius Pulcher for religious offenses ( Bona Dea scandal ). Three years later he was praetor and stood up unsuccessfully for Marcus Tullius Cicero , who was banished from Rome at the instigation of Clodius. After that, Lentulus did not appear until 51 BC. BC reappeared when he unsuccessfully applied for a position in the priestly college of the quindecimviri sacris faciundis . In 49 BC He became consul with Gaius Claudius Marcellus .
Shortly after taking office, the civil war broke out between Pompey, the majority of the Senate and Gaius Iulius Caesar. Caesar tried in vain to win Crus over to his side. In January he left Rome, joined Pompey and in March went with him to Greece ( Epirus ) and then to the province of Asia . There he raised two legions . He exempted Jews with Roman citizenship . He spent the winter with the other opponents of Caesar in Thessalonica . 48 BC Chr. Crus continued his empire as proconsul and took part in this function (probably as a troop leader) in the battle of Pharsalus , which brought the decision in the civil war in favor of Caesar. Crus fled to Egypt via Rhodes and Cyprus . Like Pompey, he was arrested and killed there.
literature
- Karl-Ludwig Elvers : [I 50] C. Lentulus Crus, L. In: Der Neue Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , column 175.
- T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 2: 99 BC - 31 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 2, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1952, p. 276.
- Friedrich Münzer : Cornelius 218 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Col. 1381-1384.
Footnotes
- ↑ Cicero, de haruspicium responsio 37.
- ↑ Caesar: The Civil War 3, 4, 1.
- ↑ Flavius Josephus : antiquitates Iudaicae 14, 244–246 (Online by archive.org)
- ↑ Caesar: The Civil War 3,104,3 (English) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cornelius Lentulus Crus, Lucius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lentulus Crus, Lupus Cornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 49 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 48 BC Chr. |