Lucius Cornelius Lentulus was a
consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throu ...
of the
Roman Republic
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in 199 BC with
Publius Villius Tappulus
Publius Villius Tappulus was a politician of the Roman Republic.
Biography
In 204 BC he was appointed plebeian aedile. In the following two years, he was praetor and propraetor in Sicily. After his time as a Praetor he would lend Cneius Tremel ...
as his colleague.
[Alison E. Cooley, ''The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy'' (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 452]
He was brother of
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus, the consul of 201 BC.
Cornelius Lentulus achieved the
praetor
Praetor ( , ), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected '' magistratus'' (magistrate), assigned to discharge vari ...
ship in 211 BC and served in
Sardinia
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. He then succeeded
Scipio Africanus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (, , ; 236/235–183 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, most notable as one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War. Often regarded as one of the best military co ...
as proconsul in Spain, though he was denied a
triumph upon his return in 200 BC. He was rewarded by becoming consul in the following year. He died in 173 BC.
References
3rd-century BC births
173 BC deaths
3rd-century BC Romans
2nd-century BC Roman consuls
Ancient Roman generals
Lucius
Lucius ( el, Λούκιος ''Loukios''; ett, Luvcie) is a male given name derived from '' Lucius'' (abbreviated ''L.''), one of the small group of common Latin forenames ('' praenomina'') found in the culture of ancient Rome. Lucius derives from ...
Roman patricians
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