Servius Cornelius Cethegus was a

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active during the reign of

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. He was

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''ordinarius'' in AD 24, together with

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. According to his

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, his father was also named ''Servius''.

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notes that the identification of Cethegus' father with one Cornelius Lentulus Cethegus, who erected a monument to his ''nutrix'', "cannot be excluded"; this would connect him to the family of the

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, one of the last surviving branches of the gens Cornelia.

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also attempts to fit him in the Cornelii Lentuli, but admits the praenomen ''Servius'' was last used by them in the mid-second century BC. An inscription at Haydrah in modern Tunisia attests that Cethegus was

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ar governor of

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; his tenure in that post has been dated towards the end of Tiberius' reign.

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