Lucius Cornelius Lentulus (consul 3 BC)
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus (c. 42 BC – c. AD 4) was a Roman politician and military officer who served as consul in 3 BC.
Biography
A member of the Patrician gens Cornelia, Lentulus was probably the son of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Cruscellio and Sulpicia. An adherent of Tiberius, Lentulus was elected consul alongside Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus in 3 BC, serving the entire year. In around AD 4, he was appointed governor of Africa.[1] While governor, he was confronted by uprisings of the native tribes in the south of the province and beyond the borders. During an expedition into the Libyan Desert against one of the tribes, the Nasamones, he was killed.[2]
Lentulus married at some point, although
Lucius Volusius Saturninus, the suffect consul of AD 3.[3]
References
Sources
- Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution (1939)
- Syme, Ronald, The Augustan Aristocracy (1986)