Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus

Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus (died after 80 BC) was a Greek freedman of Lucius Cornelius Sulla whom Sulla put in charge of the proscriptions of 82 BC. He purchased the property of the proscribed Sextus Roscius Amerinus, worth 250 talents (the equivalent of 2,500,000 denarii), for only 2,000 denarii. Chrysogonus then accused Roscius's son, Sextus Roscius, of murdering his own father.Smith, pg. 702 In 80 BC Chrysogonus was in turn accused of corruption by Marcus Tullius Cicero, who successfully defended Sextus Roscius during his trial. Very little is known of Chrysogonus after the trial.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}

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Sources

  • Smith, William, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. I (1880).

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Category:1st-century BC Romans

Category:Republican era slaves and freedmen

Category:Cornelii

Category:Sulla

Category:80 BC deaths

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