Cossus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus

Cossus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus was a

Lucius Calpurnius Piso the Augur as his colleague.^[1]

Originally born Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, Gaetulicus was a member of the patrician Lentulus branch of the Cornelii clan.

Despite giving the appearance of laziness,

emperor Tiberius,^[2] he was sent to Pannonia in 14 AD to accompany Tiberius' son Drusus in putting down a mutiny of the legions there.^[4] Later, he was given the post of praefectus urbi in 33 AD,^[2]

holding it for a number of years prior to his death.

Gaetulicus had at least two sons, Cossus Cornelius Lentulus and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, consuls in 25 and 26 AD respectively.^[5]

Notes

^ Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 6
^ ^a ^b ^c Syme, pg. 436
^ Syme, p. 435
^ ^a ^b Smith, p. 430
^ Syme, p. 437

Sources

Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939.
Smith, William, A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1860)

Political offices
Preceded by Quintus Fabricius, and Lucius Caninius Gallus as Suffect consuls	Lucius Calpurnius Piso	Succeeded by Aulus Caecina Severus as Suffect consuls

[1] Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 6

[Symepg-2] Syme, pg. 436

[3] Syme, p. 435

[Smithpg-4] Smith, p. 430

[5] Syme, p. 437

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