Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus (died after 80 BC) was a
Greek
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of
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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whom Sulla put in charge of the
proscription
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s of 82 BC. He purchased the property of the proscribed Sextus Roscius Amerinus, worth 250
talents, for 2,000
denarii
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. Chrysogonus then accused Roscius's son,
Sextus Roscius
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, of murdering his father.
[Smith, pg. 702] In 80 BC Chrysogonus was in turn accused of corruption by
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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, who was defending Sextus Roscius during his trial. Very little is known of Chrysogonus after the trial.
In popular culture
* Chrysogonus appears in
Steven Saylor
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's first ''
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'' mystery novel, ''Roman Blood''.
* Chrysogonus appears in
Colleen McCullough
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's
Masters of Rome
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series, most notably in
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and
Fortune's Favorites.
* Chrysogonus appears in "Murder in Rome", a TV documentary about
Cicero
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's defense of a man accused of the murder of his father. Directed by Dave Stewart, 2005 -
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* Smith, William, ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. I'' (1880).