A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

732 LENTULUS. LENTULUS.
of Augustus, which proves that he was alive in I blamed him for seeking a triumph at such a time
~B. C. 27, when Octavius assumed this name. (ad Fam. vi. 21, xvi. 11); urged war at any price,
22. C. CORNELIUS LENTULUS, in B. c. 199, one in the hope, says Caesar (B. C. i. 4), of retrieving
of the triamnviri colon. deduc. (Liv. xxxii. 2.) his ruined fortunes, and becoming another Sulla;
23. CN. CORNELIUS LENTULUS, consul with and Cicero seems to justify this accusation (ad anin.
Mummius ill B. C. 146. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 33. ~ 3; vi. 6, ad Att. xi. 6). It was mainly at Lentulus'
Vell. Pat. i. 12. ~ 5, compared with the Fasti, A. U. instigation that the violent measures passed the
607.) senate early in the year, which gave the tribunes a
24. CN. CORNELIUS LENTULUS CLODIANUS pretence for flying to Caesar at Ravenna (Caes.
(Cic. ad Att. i. 19. ~ 2; Gell. xviii. 4), a Claudius B. C. i. 5; Plut. Caes. 33). He himself fled from
adopted into the Lentulus family -perhaps by No. the city at the approach of Caesar; and Cicero
15. He was consul in B. C. 72, with L. Gellius. saw him at Formiae in January 23rd, quite dispiThey brought forward several important laws; rited (ad Att. vii. 12). On the 27th, at Capua,
one, that all who had been presented with the Lentulus with others agreed to accept Caesar's
freedom of the city by Pompey (after the Sertorian offers (Ib. 15). He was summoned by Cassius the
war) should be Roman citizens (Cic. pro Balb. 8, tribune to return to Rome, to bring the money from
14; see Vol. I. p. 456); another,:that persons absent the sacred treasury, but did not go (lb. 21, conlp..in the provinces should not be indictable for capital viii. 11). Pompey had meantime collected forces
offences.. This was intended to protect Sthenius in Apulia, and ordered the consuls to join him there,
of Thermae in Sicily against the machinations of leaving a garrison in Capua (ad Att. viii. 12 aVerres'; and by the influence of this person it was d.). While Pompey was retiring on Brundisium,
frustrated. (Cic. in Verr. ii. 34, 39, &c.) Len- Balbus the younger was sent by Caesar to pertulus also' passed a law to exact payment from those suade Lentulus to return to Rome, with offers of a
who had received grants of public land from Sulla. province. The consul, instead, went with his col(Sall. ap. Gell. xviii. 4.) In the war with Spar- league and some troops over to llyria, though
tacus both he and his colleague were defeated-but Cicero tried to detain him in Italy (ad Att. viii. 9,
after their consulship. (Liv. Epit. 96; Plut. Crass. 15, ix. 6); and, soon after, we hear of his raising
9, &c.) With the same colleague he held the two legions for Pompey in Asia (Caes. B. C. iii. 4).
censorship in B. c. 70, and ejected 64. members When both armies were encamped at Dyrrhachium,
from the senate for infamous life, among whom Balbus again attempted to seduce the consul, boldly
were Lentulus Sura [See No. 18] and C. Antonius, entering Pompey's camp; but Lentulus asked too
afterwards Cicero's colleague in the consulship. high a price (Vell. Pat. ii. 51; comp. Cic. ad Famo.
Yet the majority of those expelled were acquitted x. 32); and probably, like others of his party,
by the courts, and restored (Cic. pro Cluent. 42, in thought Caesar's cause desperate (Caes. B. C. iii.
Verr. v. 7, pro Flace. 19; Gell. v. 6; Val. Max. 82). After Pharsalia, he fled with Pompey; but
v. 9. ~ 1.) They held a lustrum, in which the was refused admittance at Rhodes (Caes. B. C. iii.
number of citizens was returned at 450,000 (Liv. 102; Vell. Pat. ii. 53.) With some others, he
_Epit. 98; Ascon. ad Verr. Act. i. 18; comp. Plut. determined to make for Egypt, and arrived there
Pomp. 22.) The same officers served as Pompey's the day after Pompey's murder. He saw the
legates against the pirates in B. C. 67, 66; and Len- funeral pyre on Mt. Casius, but landed, was aptulus supported the Manilian law, appointing prehended by young Ptolemy's ministers, and put
Pompey to the command against Mithridates. to death in prison. (Caes. B. C. iii. 104; Val.
(Appian, Mithr. 95; Cic. pro Leg. Manil. 23.) Max. i. 8. ~ 9; Oros. vi. 15; Plut. Pomp. 80.)
As an orator, he concealed his want of talent by Notwithstanding his prodigality and selfishness,
great skill and art, and by a good voice. (Cic. Cicero always regarded him with some favour, in
Bret. 66.) memory of the part he had taken against Clodius
25. CN. CORNELIUS LENTULUS CLODIANUS, (Brut. 77, de Harusp. Resp. 17).
son of the last. In B. C. 60, he was sent with Me- 27. SERV. CORNELIUS LENTULUS, curule aedile
tellus Creticus and L. Flaccus, to check the appre- in B. C. 207; military tribune in Spain, two years
heanded inroad of the Swiss into the province of after (Liv. xxviii. 10, xxix. 2).
Gaul; but their services were not required. (Cic. 28. SERV. CORNELIUS SERV. F. LENTULUS,
ad Att. i. 19, 20.) son of the last. In B. C. 171, he went with his
26. L. CORNELIUS LENTULUS CRUS. (Cic. ad brother Publius and three others on an embassy to
Fam. viii. 4, init.) Who lie was, and whence he Greece (Liv. xlii. 37, 47, 49, 56). In 169, he
derived his agnomen of Crus, is unknown. was praetor in Sicily (Id. xliii. 15).
In B. C. 61, he appeared as the chief accuser of 29. P. CORNELIUS SERV. F. LENTULUS. [See
P. Clodius, for violating the mysteries of the Bona the last.]
Dea (A rgum. ad Cic. in Clod., de Harusp. Resp. 30. L. CORNELIUS SERV. F. SERV. N. LENTU-:17). In 58 he was praetor, and Cicero calculated LUS, son of No. 28, praetor in B. C. 140 (Frontin.
on his aid against Clodius (ad Q. Fr. i. 2, fin.); de Aquaed. 7).
and he did attempt to rouse Pompey to protect the 31. L. LENTULUS, in B. C. 168 was one of three
orator, but in vain (in Pison. 31). He was not who carried home the despatches of the consul
raised to the consular dignity till B. C. 50, when he Aemilius Paullus, after the defeat of Perseus (Liv.
obtained this post, with C. Marcellus M. f., as being xlv. 1).
a known enemy to Caesar (Caes. B. G. 8, 50); 32. CN. LENTULUS VATIA, mentioned by Cicero,
though in the year before, P. Dolabella had beaten B. C. 56 (ad Q. Fr. ii. 3. ~ 5).
him in the contest for a place among the xv. viri 33. L. CORNELIUS LENTULUS NIGER, flamen
(Cic. ad Fam. viii. 4). In the year of his consul- of Mars (Cic. ad Att. xii. 7, in Vatin. 10; comp.
ship, B. c. 49, the storm burst. Lentulus did all Ascon. ad Cic. Scaur. sub fin.). At his dedication
he could to excite his wavering party to take arms by the augur L. Caesar, he gave a sumptuous dinand meet Caesar: he called Cicero cowardly; ner (Macrob. Sat. ii. 9). In B.c. 58, -he stood for