Lucius Cornelius Lentulus (consul 3 BC)
Biography
A member of the Patrician gens Cornelia, Lentulus was probably the son of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Cruscellio and Sulpicia. An adherent of Tiberius, Lentulus was elected consul alongside Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus in 3 BC, serving the entire year. In around AD 4, he was appointed governor of Africa.Syme, Revolution, p. 435 While governor, he was confronted by uprisings of the native tribes in the south of the province and beyond the borders. During an expedition into the Libyan Desert against one of the tribes, the Nasamones, he was killed.Roller, Duane W., The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier (2003), p. 109
Lentulus married at some point, although Ronald Syme admits to be uncertain of her identity, suggesting the daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio consul in 16 BC, or of Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, "yet an Aemilia Lepida is not excluded."Syme, Aristocracy, p. 252 They had a daughter, Cornelia Lentula, who married Lucius Volusius Saturninus, the suffect consul of AD 3.
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- {{cite book|last=Syme|first=Ronald|title=The Roman Revolution|date=1939|isbn=0198810016}}
- {{cite book|last=Syme|first=Ronald|title=The Augustan Aristocracy|date=1986|isbn=0198147317}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Roman consul|years=3 BC|regent1=M. Valerius Messalla Messallinus}}
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Category:1st-century BC Roman consuls
Category:Ancient Romans killed in action
Category:Imperial Roman consuls
Category:Roman governors of Africa