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Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus (consul 237 BC)
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus was a Roman politician in the third century BC.Charles Ludwig Elvers, ''The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity'', Vol. 3, p. 174''Fasti Capitolini'' Family His father was Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus, consul in 275 BC. His brother was Publius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus, consul in 236 BC. His sons were Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus consul in 201 BC, and Lucius Cornelius Lentulus who held the consulship in 199 BC. Career In 237 BC, he served as consul, with Quintus Fulvius Flaccus as his colleague. In the following year, he was elected censor, and in 221 BC, he became pontifex maximus. He died around 213 BC.Eutropius, III References 3rd-century BC Roman consuls Ancient Roman censors Pontifices maximi of the Roman Republic Cornelii Lentuli {{AncientRome-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus was a Roman politician in the third century BC. Family He was a member of gens Cornelia. His sons were the consuls Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus in 237 and 236 BC, respectively. Career Lucius Cornelius Lentulus served as consul in 275 BC with Manius Curius Dentatus as his colleague.Hans George Gundel: The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity Ch.3 p.174 While Dentatus was fighting against Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, Cornelius defeated the Samnites The Samnites () were an ancient Italic peoples, Italic people who lived in Samnium, which is located in modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central Italy. An Oscan language, Oscan-speaking Osci, people, who originated as an offsh ..., triumphed and assumed the cognomen ''Caudinus.'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus, Lucius Cornelii Lentuli 3rd-century BC Roman consuls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus was a Roman politician in the third century BC.Charles Ludwig Elvers, The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol.3Eutropius, III, 2, 1.Zonaras, VIII, 18. Family He was a member of gens Cornelia. His father was Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus, consul in 275 BC. His brother was Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus, consul in 237 BC. Publius had a son of the same name, who served as Praetor in 203 BC. Career In 236 BC, Lentulus served as consul, together with Gaius Licinius Varus as his colleague. He fought successfully against the Ligurians The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named. Because of the strong Celtic influences on their language and culture, they were also known in antiquity as Celto-Liguria ..., and celebrated a triumph upon defeating them. References Cornelii Lentuli 3rd-century BC Roman consuls {{AncientRome-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus (consul 201 BC)
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus (consul 201 BC) served as quaestor of the Roman Republic in 212 BC, curule aedile and consul in 201 BC. His brother Lucius Cornelius Lentulus was also consul in 199 BC. Gnaeus was possibly the son of L. Cornelius L. f. L. n. Lentulus Caudinus, curule aedile in 209 BC, though the presence of the praenomen Gnaeus, along with the absence of the agnomen Caudinus, are opposed to this connection. Career He wished for the province of Africa, that he might conclude the war with Carthage; but this well-earned glory was reserved for Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus by the Senate. Lentulus had the command of the fleet on the coast of Sicily, with orders to pass over to Africa if necessary. Scipio used to say, that but for Lentulus' greediness he should have destroyed Carthage. Cn. Lentulus was proconsul in Hither Spain in 199 BC, and received an ovation for his services. In Book 18 of ''The Histories'', Greek historian Polybius Polybius (; , ; ) was a Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus (consul 199 BC)
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 199 BC with Publius Villius Tappulus 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 praetorship in 211 BC and served in Sardinia. He then succeeded Scipio Africanus 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 is a masculine given name derived from Lucius (Latin ; ), abbreviated L., one of the small group of common Latin forenames () found in the culture of ancient Rome. Lucius probably derives from Latin word ( gen. ), meaning "light" (< [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 237 BC)
Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (c. 277 BC202 BC), son of Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 264 BC), was Roman consul, consul in 237 BC, fighting the Gauls in northern Italy. He was Roman censor, censor in 231 BC, and again consul in 224 BC, when he subdued the Boii. He was a praetor in 215 BC and in 213 BC Master of Horse in the dictatorship of Gaius Claudius Centho. His brother was Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus, who was praetor in 212 BC. He fought in the Battle of Herdonia (212 BC) and went to exile in 211 BC. His sons were Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 179 BC), Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 179 BC) and Lucius Manlius Acidinus Fulvianus (consul 179 BC), was adopted into the Manlia (gens), Manlia gens, probably by Lucius Manlius Acidinus - the only instance of two brothers holding the consulship at the same time during the Republic. He was again consul in 212 BC, during the Second Punic War, winning a victory over Hanno, son of Bomilcar and capturing his camp at Benevento, Beneventum. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Censor
The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances. Established under the Roman Republic, power of the censor was limited in subject matter but absolute within his sphere: in matters reserved for the censors, no magistrate could oppose his decisions, and only another censor who succeeded him could cancel those decisions. Censors were also given unusually long terms of office; unlike other elected offices of the Republic, which (excluding certain priests elected for life) had terms of 12 months or less, censors' terms were generally 18 months to 5 years (depending on the era). The censorate was thus highly prestigious, preceding all other regular magistracies in dignity if not in power and reserved with rare exceptions for former Roman consul, consuls. Attaining the censorship would thus be considered the crowning achievement of a Roman politician on the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd-century BC Roman Consuls
The 3rd century was the period from AD 201 (represented by the Roman numerals CCI) to AD 300 (CCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar. In this century, the Roman Empire saw a crisis, starting with the assassination of the Roman Emperor Severus Alexander in 235, plunging the empire into a period of economic troubles, barbarian incursions, political upheavals, civil wars, and the split of the Roman Empire through the Gallic Empire in the west and the Palmyrene Empire in the east, which all together threatened to destroy the Roman Empire in its entirety, but the reconquests of the seceded territories by Emperor Aurelian and the stabilization period under Emperor Diocletian due to the administrative strengthening of the empire caused an end to the crisis by 284. This crisis would also mark the beginning of Late Antiquity. While in North Africa, Roman rule continued with growing Christian influence, particularly in the region of Carthage. In Persia, the Parthian Empire was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Roman Censors
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BCAD 500, ending with the expansion of Islam in late antiquity. The three-age system periodises ancient history into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The start and end of the three ages vary between world regions. In many regions the Bronze Age is generally considered to begin a few centuries prior to 3000 BC, while the end of the Iron Age varies from the early first millennium BC in some regions to the late first millennium AD in others. During the time period of ancient history, the world population was exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution, which was in full prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontifices Maximi Of The Roman Republic
In Roman antiquity, a pontiff () was a member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs."Pontifex". "Oxford English Dictionary", March 2007 The term ''pontiff'' was later applied to any high or chief priest and, in Roman Catholic ecclesiastical usage, to bishops, especially the pope, who is sometimes referred to as the Roman pontiff or the supreme pontiff. Etymology The English term derives through Old French ''pontif'' from Latin ''pontifex'', a word commonly held to come from the Latin root words ''pons'', ''pont-'' (bridge) + ''facere'' (to do, to make), and so to have the literal meaning of "bridge-builder", presumably between mankind and the deity/deities. Uncertainty prevailing, this may be only a folk etymology, but it may also recall ancient tasks and magic rites associated with bridges. The term may also be an allusion to Ancient Roman Religious rituals for placating the gods and spirits associated with the Tiber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
