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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56)

Consul in 56 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 74 BCE
    (aged 26)
    Quaestor

    MT: No further comments in MRR2

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Grueber, CRRBM 2.358-360.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 74 BCE (Quaestor) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Marcius Philippus (cos. 56) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 56 BCE (Consul)

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Culleolus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 60 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 68 BCE
    (aged 32)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    MT: Syme (JRS 53, 1963, 56-60-RP 2.559-563) identifies the Cn. Cornelius (24), Tr. pl. 68 (see MRR 2.138; ILLRP 465a), with the future consul of 56 (MRR3). If this is true we have a duplicate Cn. Cornelius (the two are linked as related for now)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR3
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 74 BCE (Quaestor) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Marcius Philippus (cos. 56) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 56 BCE (Consul)

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Culleolus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 60 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 60 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Praetor

    Broughton: See 59, Promagistrates; cf. App. Syr. 51.

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

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 74 BCE (Quaestor) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Marcius Philippus (cos. 56) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 56 BCE (Consul)

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Culleolus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 60 BCE (Praetor)

  4. 56 BCE
    (aged 44)
    Consul · Co-consul: L. Marcius Philippus (cos. 56)

    Broughton: Lentulus as Consul-elect and Consul gave general support to the optimate position against Clodius and the so-called First Triumvirate (a), and opposed the use of an army to restore the king of Egypt to his throne (b). He [Lentulus] opposed the candidacy of Pompey and Crassus for the consulships of 55 (c).

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.923-926, 964; Bull. Archeol. Dalmate 47-48 (1924-25) 4, cited by Degrassi; cf. IGRP 1.1394; Cic. Att. 5.21.11; Fam. 1.9.8; Ascon. 2 C; Dio 39, Index, 16.3, 18. 1, and 40. 1 ; Schol. Bob. 135 Stangl; Chr. 354 (Marcellino et Philippo); Fast. Hyd. (Marcellino et Philippo); Chr. Pasc. (#); Cassiod.; on Marcellinus, Cic. Att. 9.9.4; QF 2.1.1; Brut. 247; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f.; and on Philippus, Cic. QF 2.1.2; Har. Resp. 11; Sest. 110; Prov. Cons. 21, cf. 39; Plut. Cat. Min. 39. See Degrassi 56f., 132, 492f.
      • (a) Cic. A tt. 4.2.4, and 3.3; QF 2.1.1-2, and 4.4; Fam. 1. 2. 1; Har. Resp. 11, 13, 22; Prov. Cons. 39
      • (b) Cic. Fam. 1.1.2, and 2.1; QF 2.4.5; cf. Fenestella fr. 21 Peter
      • (c) Plut. Pomp. 51; Crass. 15; Apophth. Pomp. 12; Dio 39.28-30; cf. Val. Max. 6.2.6
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 74 BCE (Quaestor) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Marcius Philippus (cos. 56) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 56 BCE (Consul)

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Culleolus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 60 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Siblings
    Publius Cornelius Lentitlus
  2. Related
    Gnaeus Cornelius
  3. Children
    Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (q. 48)