Lentulus

Lentulus is the name of the one of the most famous branches of the people Cornelia. Their state patrician indicates a filiation (difficult to establish precisely) with Cornelii Maluginenses and Cossi. They divide, with these two branches, as well as the Scipions, the Dolabellae, the Cethegi, the Sullae and the Cinnae, the same common ancestor.

It counts many Consuls, Censeurs, Grands pontiffs and Princes of the Senate.

Origin of the name

For some, " Lentulus" would be an Etruscan name. For others (of which Pline Old the), " Lentulus" would derive from " lentes" (lenses) and would have been allotted to this branch because they " excellaient" in the culture of this plant.

It could also come from " lentus" meaning " souple" , " flexible" or " tenace" or " lent" , " indolent" or " impassible".

Cicéron used the word " Lentulitas" (Lentulité) to indicate the attitude of the very high Roman aristocracy (it will use also that of Appietas, coming from " Appius" , traditional first name patrician people of the Claudii).

The name of Lentulus appears for the first time in the consular Fastes in 327 av. J. - C. with Lucius Cornelius Lentulus.

Cornelii Lentuli Marcellini

Lentuli, patricians and noble, took almost all share with the civil wars in the camp of the Optimates against the imperatores Populares (Marius, César, etc) like almost all the other branches of Cornelii.

Cethegi and Scipions died out. Dolabellae, because of their alliance with Jules César, Sullae, because of their recent prestige and Cinnae, going down from combined from Marius, Lucius Cornelius Cinna survived.

Of all the branches of Lentuli, only survived Lentuli Marcellini, resulting from Publius Cornelius Mar.f. Lentulus, wire of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Praetor in 137 av. J. - C., adopted by Publius Cornelius Lentulus (the son of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Lupus, consul in 156 av. J. - C., critic in 147 av. J. - C. and Princeps senatus of 130 with 126 av. J. - C.).

He married Cornelia, girl of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul in 111 av. J. - C., which allowed Lentuli Marcellini, after the extinction of Scipions, to recover their heritage and their name.

Lentuli Marcellini thus took to the name of all the disappeared branches people. , Under Auguste, three named brothers were thus seen:

  • Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio, Consul suffect in 2

  • Servius Cornelius Lentulus Maluginensis, consul suffect in 10 and Jupiter flamine
  • Cneius Cornelius Lentulus, then Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, consul in -1

Lentulus Maluginensis named one as of its sons Servius Cornelius Lentulus Cethegus, of the name of another disappeared branch people.

Lentuli under the Empire

The friendship of certain Lentuli with Auguste and Tibère, then Néron, their bonds with Séjan made it possible Lentuli to still reach of many times the consulate and the honors.

Thus, in the Twenties, under the reign of Tibère, one can note:

  • Servius Cornelius Lentulus Maluginensis, Flamine of Jupiter of 23

  • Servius Cornelius Lentulus Cethegus, consul of 24
  • Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio, consul suffect of 24
  • Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, consul in 25
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, consul in 26
  • Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio, consul suffect in 27

Their children were themselves consuls under Julio-Claudiens:

  • Servius Cornelius Salvidienus Orfitus, wire of Cethegus, consul in 51

  • Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, consul suffect in 55
  • Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio, half-brother of Poppée, consul in 56
  • Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, consul in 60
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus, brother of the consul of 56, consul suffect in 68

Of all the gentes maiores (most famous gentes patricians of the Republic), Cornelii survived longest. Indeed, the Fabii patricians disappeared from the Records into 34, the Aemilii died out into 39, the Claudii into 68 and the bonds of the posterior Valerii to the Julio-Claudiens with Valerii patricians are disputed.

Cornelii disappeared from the consular Records under Marc Aurèle, with Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, consul into 178, going down from Lentuli and Scipions.

It was the last one representing ancestral republican patriciat and put an end to the existence of a family for the first time having exerted the consulate 663 years earlier.

Lentuli famous

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