Lucius Licinius Lucullus (cos. 74) edit

Consul in 74 BCE

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Career

1. 88 BCE
   Quaestor edit

   Broughton: 5 Lucullus' quaestorship is dated, perhaps rightly, in 88 by Sobeck (29) along with the consulship of Sulla. This year is the latest possible date and receives some slight support from the distinction made by Cicero between Lucullus' service, as Quaestor and as Proquaestor (a). See also 1. de, Delos 4.1.1620.

   MT: citation above taken from and confirmed in DPPR

   Sources (1)

   • • (a) Acad. 2.1 and 4 and 11
2. 87 BCE
   Quaestor edit

   Sent in advance by Sulla to Greece, he made Bruttius Sura, the Legate of Sentius, return to Macedonia (a). He had charge of Sulla's mint in Greece (b). At the end of the year he was sent to Egypt and elsewhere to assemble a fleet (c).

3. 79 BCE
   Aedile ·curule edit

   Pliny attests a date 20 years after the aedileship of C. Claudius Pulcher (99 B.C.), Granius Lieinianus the fact that they were Curule Aediles

4. 78 BCE
   Praetor edit

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5. 74 BCE
   Consul edit

   In Rome Lucullus checked the Tribune Quinctius (a; see Tribunes of the Plebs). He had been assigned the province of Cisalpine Gaul, but upon the death of Octavius, Proconsul in Cilicia, early in the year (see Promagistrates), he intrigued to get this province and the command against Mithridates (b). He received also command of the former armies of Fimbria and of Servilius Isauricus (c), and probably also the province of Asia (d; and see 70, Promagistrates, on Lucullus). Cotta received command of a fleet to protect his province of Bithynia and the Propontis, but was defeated on sea and on land, and shut up in Chalcedon until Lucullus relieved him (e). The latter checked the forces of Mithridates in a battle at the Rhyndacus river, and during the winter of 74-73 brought him to disaster in a trap as he was besieging Cyzicus (f).

Family