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Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (cos. 72)

Consul in 72 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 75 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Praetor

    Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law.

    Sources (1)
    • MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Gellius Poplicola (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 72 BCE (Consul)

    C. Licinius Sacerdos (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 75 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Furius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 75 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Turius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 75 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Caesius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 75 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 72 BCE
    (aged 43)
    Consul · Co-consul: L. Gellius Poplicola

    Broughton: The Consuls carried bills to validate grants of citizenship by Pompey in Spain (a). They checked Verres in Sicily by providing that no one in the provinces should be tried in absence on a capital charge (b). Lentulus proposed that sums remitted by Sulla be collected from buyers of the property of the proscribed (c). Both Consuls were defeated, first separately and then together, by Spartacus, and were withdrawn from command by decree of the Senate (d).

    Sources (5)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.897; Cic. Verr. 2.2.95; Balb. 19; Degrassi 131, 486f.; Chr. 354 (Publicola et Lentulo); Fast. Hyd. (Cn. Lentulo et Gellio); Chr. Pasc. (#); Oros. 5.24.4; Cassiod.; and on Lentulus, CIL 12.2.589.
      • (a) Cic. Balb. 19 and 32-33, cf. 38
      • (b) Cic. Verr. 2.2.94-98
      • (c) Sall. Hist. 4.1 M
      • (d) Sall. Hist. 3.106 M; Liv. Per. 96; Plut. Crass. 9.7-10.1; Cal. Min. 8.1-2; App. BC 1.117; Flor. 2.8.10; Eutrop. 6.7.2; Oros. 5.24.4; cf. Iulian Caes. 322 D, #
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Gellius Poplicola (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 72 BCE (Consul)

    C. Licinius Sacerdos (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 75 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Furius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 75 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Turius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 75 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Caesius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 75 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Parents
    Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus (cos. 97)
  2. Siblings
    Publius Cornelius Dolabella
  3. Children
    Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (pr. 59)