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Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus

Consul in 49 BCE. He was chief prosecutor of Clodius Pulcher over the violation of the mysteries of the Good Goddess

🏛️ Career

  1. 58 BCE
    (aged 39)
    Praetor

    MT: No further comments in MRR2

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Pis. 77; QF 1.2.16.
  2. 49 BCE
    (aged 48)
    Consul · Co-consul: C. Claudius Marcellus (cos. 49)

    Broughton: They were elected as anti-Caesarians (a), and supported the Pompeian interest in the Senate meetings early in January and in the subsequent negotiations, and left Italy even before Pompey (b), thus foiling Caesar's attempt to make contact with Lentulus through the younger Balbus (c). Lentulus actively recruited troops in Asia (d). Both Consuls and the anti-Caesarian government as a whole wintered at Thessalonica (e; see Promagistrates, on Pompey).

    Sources (6)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12 .2.967, cf. 669; Grueber, CRRBM 1.504; 2.466f., 558; Cic. Fam. 7.3.1; Att. 15.3.1; Phil. 2.51; Hirt. in Caes. BG 8.50.4; Bell. Alex. 68.2; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 132, 496f.; Vell. 2.49.1; Joseph. AJ 14.228 and 238; App. BC 2.33; Flor. 2.13.15; Dio 41, Index, and 1.1; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Schol. Bob. 89 Stangl; cf. Plut. Caes. 29-31, who confuses C. and M. Marcellus.
      • (a) Hirt. in Caes. BG 8.50.4; Suet. Iul. 29.2
      • (b) Cic. Att. 7.12-9.9, passim, esp. 7.21, and 24. 8.12A; Fam. 16.11.3; Caes. BC 1.1-6, passim, esp. 1.4-6, and 14: and 25; Vell. 2.49.1-50.2, and 53.1; Lucan 2.645- 649; Petron. 124, lines 288-289; Suet. Iul. 29.2; 34.1; Plut. Pomp. 59, and 61-62; Caes. 30-31; 33.4; 34.1; 35.1; Ant. 5.5; App. BC 2.33, and 36-37, and 39; Dio 41.1, and 3, and 6, and 12; Eutrop. 6.18.2-3; Oros. 6.15.2 and 4
      • (c) Cic. Att. 8.9.4, and 11. 5; 9. 6. 1
      • (d) Caes. BC 3.4.1; Joseph. AJ 14.228, 232, 234 236, and 238
      • (e) Dio 41.43

🏺 Family

  1. Siblings
    P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57)