Publius Cornelius Lentulus (suffect consul 162 BC)

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Publius Cornelius Lentulus was a Roman senator , politician, and military officer of the 2nd century BC. Chr.

Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus belonged to the Lentuli branch of the Cornelier family . He first appeared in 172 BC. BC as a Roman envoy in Greece. In the following year he participated as a military tribune in the fighting against the Macedonian king Perseus in Boeotia . 169 BC He became a curulic aedile with Publius Cornelius Nasica . In this position he organized games with African predators in Rome for the first time. The following year he was again a member of a three-man mission in Greece and in this position led the decisive talks with Perseus after the Battle of Pydna .

165 BC Lentulus praetor urbanus became . In this function, he was given the task of confiscating illegally occupied state land (the ager Campanus ) in return for compensation and also to buy additional land from private owners for the state. He reached the peak of his career three years later when he was 162 BC. As successor to Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and at the side of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus held the suffect consulate . 156 BC BC Lentulus was again a member of a legation to the eastern Mediterranean.

Much modern research identifies the suffect consul 162 BC. BC also with a senator of the same name, who lived around 125 BC. Chr. Princeps senatus was. He complained in 124 BC. Chr. Manius Aquillius , the former governor of the province of Asia, for bribery. 121 BC BC Lentulus appeared on the side of the Optimates in the fighting against Gaius Sempronius Gracchus and was wounded in the process. According to Valerius Maximus , he then withdrew into voluntary exile in Sicily and died there. Recently the thesis was put forward that this Lentulus was a son of the same name of the suffect consul in 162 BC. Was. He is also the governor of Macedonia in 128 BC. And could be suffect consul for Marcus Plautius Hypsaeus in 125 BC. Have been.

Lentulus is one of the most prominent representatives of the Roman nobility of the 2nd century BC.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Pliny the Elder : Natural History , 8:64.
  2. ↑ Titus Livius 45,4,7.
  3. ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero : de lege agraria 2.82.
  4. ↑ Cicero: de lege agraria 2.82.
  5. ^ Cicero, divinatio in Caecilium 69 .
  6. ↑ Cicero: in Catilinam 4:13 .
  7. ↑ Valerius Maximus 5, 3, 2.
  8. ↑ Bernd Michael Kreiler: To the consulate of the Gracchen opponent P. Cornelius Lentulus. In: Historia . Vol. 59, No. 1, 2010, pp. 119-121, JSTOR 27809554 .
  9. ↑ Fouilles de Delphes III, 2, 70 , line 21; Wilhelm Dittenberger , Sylloge ³ 704 B .
  10. ↑ Hans Georg Gundel , in: Der Kleine Pauly Vol. 3, Col. 559.
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius Lentulus, Publius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lentulus, Publius Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul 162 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.