Lucius Cornelius Sulla (consul 5 BC)

Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman senator of the Augustan age. He was ordinary consul as the colleague of Augustus in 5 BC.^[1] The only other office attested for him was as a member of the Septemviri epulonum, which he was co-opted into after his praetorship.^[2]

Ronald Syme believed he was a son of Publius Cornelius Sulla, designated consul for 65 BC, which made him a grandnephew of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.^[3] The son of Lucius, Cornelius Sulla, was expelled from the Senate by Tiberius in AD 17.^[4]

References[]

^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
^ CIL VI, 1390 = ILS 920
^ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 86
^ Tacitus, Annales, ii.48

Further reading[]

Werner Eck, "Cornelius [II 58]" in Brill's New Pauly (online edition).
Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR²) C 1460

Political offices
Preceded by Decimus Laelius Balbus, and Gaius Antistius Vetus as Ordinary consuls	Consul of the Roman Empire 5 BC with Imp. Caesar Divi filius Augustus XII	Succeeded by Quintus Haterius, and Lucius Vinicius as Suffect consuls

[1] Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458

[2] CIL VI, 1390 = ILS 920

[3] Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 86

[4] Tacitus, Annales, ii.48

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