Cossus Cornelius Lentulus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Tiberius. He was consul in the year AD 25 as the colleague of Marcus Asinius Agrippa.[1] Except for his consulship, the only office Lentulus might have held is governorship of Germania Superior, as Edmund Groag conjectured.[2]

Lentulus was the son of Cossus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, consul in 1 BC. His brother was Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, consul in the year 26. He is known to have a son, Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, consul in the year 60, as the colleague of Nero.[3]

References

  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
  2. ^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 298 n. 119
  3. ^ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 298f
Political offices Preceded byG. Calpurnius AviolaP. Cornelius Lentulus Scipioas suffecti Consul of the Roman Empire January–August 25with Marcus Asinius Agrippa Succeeded byGaius Petroniusas suffectus


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