Lucius Cornelius Pusio
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Left head of the statue depicting Lucius Cornelius Pusio; on the right an inscription containing the career of Lucius Cornelius Pusio
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Lucius Cornelius Pusio (full name form Lucius Cornelius Luci filius Galeria Pusio ) was a Roman politician and senator in the time from Nero to Vespasian .
His career became known through the discovery of a statue with an inscription. This was dedicated to him by a centurion who had served under Cornelius in the Legio XVI Gallica.
During his career he was four times vir viarum curandarum (civil servant), tribunus militum with the Legio XIIII Gemina , tribuno plebis ( tribune of the people ) and from about 54 to 56 AD legate of the Legio XVI Gallica .
In the early years of the reign of Emperor Vespasian he once held the suffect consulate , the exact year is not known. His son Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messala also reached the suffect consulate.
Pusio was registered in the Tribus Galeria .
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literature
- Edmund Groag : Cornelius 296 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Col. 1421 f.
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Cornelius Pusio, Lucius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pusio, Lucius Cornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman suffect consul at the time of Vespasian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century |