Cornelia gens

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The gens Cornelia was one of the greatest patrician houses at ancient Rome. For more than seven hundred years, from the early decades of the Republic to the third century AD, the Cornelii produced more eminent statesmen and generals than any other gens. At least seventy-five consuls under the Republic were members of this family, beginning with Servius Cornelius Maluginensis in 485 BC. Together with the Aemilii, Claudii, Fabii, Manlii, and Valerii, the Cornelii were almost certainly numbered among the gentes maiores, the most important and powerful families of Rome, who for centuries dominated the Republican magistracies. All of the major branches of the Cornelian gens were patrician, but there were also plebeian Cornelii, at least some of whom were descended from freedmen.[1]

Origin[]

The origin of the Cornelii is lost to history, but the nomen Cornelius may be formed from the hypothetical cognomen Corneus, meaning "horny", that is, having thick or callused skin. The existence of such a cognomen in early times may be inferred from its diminutive, Corneolus. Such a derivation implies a Latin origin for the Cornelii, and there is no evidence to contradict this, but beyond this no traditions survive relating to the family's beginning.[2]

Praenomina[]

The Cornelii employed a wide variety of praenomina, although individual families tended to favor certain names and avoid others. Servius, Lucius, Publius, and Gnaeus were common to most branches, while other names were used by individual stirpes; Marcus primarily by the Cornelii Maluginenses and the Cethegi, Gaius by the Cethegi, and Aulus by the Cossi. Other names occur infrequently; Tiberius appears once amongst the Lentuli, who later revived the old surname Cossus as a praenomen, while the Cornelii Sullae made use of Faustus.

Branches and cognomina[]

The Cornelian gens included both patricians and plebeians, but all of its major families were patrician. The surnames Arvina, Blasio, Cethegus, Cinna, Cossus, Dolabella, Lentulus, Maluginensis, Mammula, Merenda, Merula, Rufinus, Scapula, Scipio, Sisenna, and Sulla belonged to patrician Cornelii, while the plebeian cognomina included Balbus and Gallus. Other surnames are known from freedmen, including Chrysogonus, Culleolus, Phagita, and others. A number of plebeian Cornelii had no cognomen.[1]

The first of the Cornelii to appear in history bore the surname Maluginensis. This family seems to have divided into two stirpes in the 430s, the senior line retaining Maluginensis, while the younger branches assumed Cossus. From their filiations, the first of the Cornelii Cossi would seem to have been younger sons of Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis, a member of the Second Decemvirate in 450 BC. Both families produced a number of consuls and consular tribunes during the fourth and fifth centuries BC. The Maluginenses disappeared before the period of the Samnite Wars, although the Cornelii Scipiones appear to have been descended from this family, while the surname Cossus appears as late as the beginning of the third century; members of the latter family also bore the cognomina Rutilus, "reddish", and Arvina. Cossus itself seems to belong to a class of surnames derived from objects or animals, referring to the larva of certain beetles that burrow under the bark of trees. The Cornelii Lentuli subsequently revived Cossus as a surname.[3][4]

The Cornelii Scipiones derived their surname from a legend in which the first of the family served as a staff (scipio) for his blind father. Since the first of the Scipiones seems to have borne the cognomen Maluginensis, he would seem to have been the son of Publius Cornelius Maluginensis, one of the consular tribunes in 404 BC. The Scipiones produced numerous consuls and several prominent generals, of whom the most celebrated were Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus. Members of this family held the highest offices of the Roman state from the beginning of the fourth century BC down to the second century of the Empire, a span of nearly six hundred years. Its members bore a large number of additional surnames, including Barbatus, "bearded", Scapula, "shoulder blade", Asina, "she-ass", Calvus, "bald", Hispallus, "little Spaniard", Nasica, "nosed", and Corculum, "little heart", in addition to those derived from their military exploits: Africanus and Asiaticus. The last generations of this great family were originally adopted from the Salvidieni, and so bore the additional names of Salvidienus Orfitus. The Scipiones had a large family sepulchre at Rome, which still exists, having been rediscovered in 1780.[5][6][7]

The cognomen Lentulus probably belongs to a class of surnames deriving from the habits or qualities of the persons to whom they were first applied; the adjective lentulus means "rather slow". An alternative explanation is that the name is a diminutive of lens, a lentil, and so belongs to the same class of surnames as Cicero, a chickpea, and Caepio, an onion.[8][9] The Cornelii Lentuli were famed for their pride and haughtiness, so that Cicero uses Lentulitas, "Lentulusness", to describe the most aristocratic of the patricians.[10] The Lentuli appear in history from the time of the Samnite Wars to the first century of the Empire, a period of about four hundred years. Their origin is uncertain. According to Livy, early in the Second Samnite War, described his father as the only man who, during the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BC, had opposed paying a ransom to ensure the departure of the Gauls from the city.[11] The filiations of other early Lentuli suggest that their ancestors used the name Gnaeus, suggesting that they could have been descendants of the Cornelii Cossi.

The Lentuli used a number of additional surnames, including Caudinus, apparently referring to the Battle of the Caudine Forks, crus, a leg, or the shin, Gaetulicus, bestowed upon the conqueror of the Gaetuli, Lupus, a wolf, Niger, black, Spinther, a bracelet, and Sura, the calf. The Lentuli also revived several old cognomina that had belonged to other stirpes of the Cornelii: Maluginensis, Cossus, Rufinus, and Scipio. At least two of this family bore surnames derived from other gentes; Clodianus was borne by a Lentulus who had been adopted from the Clodii, while Marcellinus belonged to a member of the family who was adopted from the Claudii Marcelli.[9][12][13]

The Cornelii Rufini appear in the latter half of the fourth century BC, beginning with Publius Cornelius Rufinus, dictator in 334 BC. From the surname Rufinus, meaning "reddish", one may infer that the first of this family had red hair.[7] A descendant of this family was the first to assume the cognomen Sulla, about the time of the Second Punic War. The name is probably a diminutive of Sura, a cognomen found in several gentes, including among the Cornelii Lentuli, and probably referred to someone with prominent calves.[7] Plutarch, who erroneously believed that the dictator Sulla was the first to bear the name, thought it must have referred to a blotchy, reddish complexion, while Macrobius derives it from Sibylla, an etymology that is rejected by Quintilian.[14][15][16][17] The dictator Sulla adopted the agnomen Felix, meaning "fortunate" or "happy", and this name was passed on to some of his descendants.[18] The Sullae continued in the highest offices of the state well into imperial times. The last appearing in history fell victim to Elagabalus, early in the third century AD.[14]

The Dolabellae first came to prominence at the beginning of the third century BC, and so remained until the reign of Vitellius. Several of the Dolabellae achieved high office, and one was Rex Sacrorum, but many of this family were notorious for their pride, extravagance, and disregard for the law. Their surname, Dolabella, is a diminutive of dolabra, a mattock or pickaxe, and belongs to a common class of surnames derived from everyday objects.[4][19]

Several lesser patrician stirpes flourished during the late Republic and early years of the Empire. The Cornelii Merendae flourished for about a century, beginning in the early third century BC. Their cognomen means the midday meal, and is also found among the patrician Antonii. The Blasiones appeared at the same time and flourished for about 160 years; their surname was originally given to one who stammers.[7] Cethegus is a cognomen whose original meaning and significance have been lost. The Cornelii Cethegi first appear in the latter half of the third century BC, and were described by Horace as cinctuti Cethegi, for their old-fashioned practice of wearing their arms bare. They remained prominent for the next two centuries.[20][21] The Cornelii Mammulae held several praetorships, beginning at the time of the Second Punic War, but they never attained the consulship, and disappeared after about fifty years. Their surname is a diminutive of mamma, a breast.[22][7] Merula refers to an ouzel, or blackbird. The family that bore this surname rose from obscurity at the beginning of the second century BC, and continued for the next century.[23] The Cornelii Cinnae were the last patrician family to emerge in the late second century BC; they retained prominence until the early decades of the Empire.[24]

Balbus, which like Blasio signifies a stammerer,[7] was not originally a surname of the Cornelia gens, but was adopted by a native of Gades, who was granted Roman citizenship by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, as a reward for military service during the War against Sertorius. He probably took the nomen Cornelius after Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus, who ratified the act making Balbus a citizen in 72 BC. He eventually attained the consulship, but the family, which was plebeian, disappeared from history in the early years of the Empire.[25] Another plebeian surname of the Cornelii was Gallus, known from Gaius Cornelius Gallus, the poet, who came to Rome from Forum Julii as a young man. His surname signified his Gallic origin.[26][27]

Members[]

Monument of Gaius Cornelius Calvus, and his brother, Lucius.
This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Cornelii Maluginenses[]

Cornelii Cossi[]

Cornelii Scipiones[]

Further information: Family tree of the Cornelii Scipiones
Four Cornelii Scipiones (clockwise from top left): Scipio Africanus, Scipio Asiaticus,[41][42] Scipio Aemilianus,[43][44] and Scipio Nasica Corculum.[45][46]

Cornelii Lentuli[]

Cornelii Rufini et Sullae[]

  • Publius Cornelius Rufinus, dictator in 334 BC, but resigned due to a fault in his nomination. The Fasti Consulares list him again as dictator again in 333, during the first "Dictator Year" (a year without consul), but the historicity of the Dictator Years is doubted by modern scholars. Livy only mentions him in 334.[124][125]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Rufinus, the son of Publius Cornelius Rufinus, the dictator of 334 BC, was father of Publius Cornelius Rufinus, dictator in 280.
  • Publius Cornelius Cn. f. P. n. Rufinus, grandson of the dictator Publius Cornelius Rufinus, was consul in 290 and 277 BC, and dictator in 280.[126]
  • Publius Cornelius P. f. (Rufinus) Sulla, Flamen Dialis from circa 270 BC until the middle of the century, was the first of the Cornelii to bear the cognomen Sulla.[127] He was probably the son of Publius Cornelius Rufinus, consul in 290 and 277, and father of Publius Cornelius Sulla, praetor in 212.[128]
  • Publius Cornelius P. f. P. n. Sulla, praetor urbanus and peregrinus in 212 BC, held the first Ludi Apollinares.[129]
  • Publius Cornelius P. f. Sulla, praetor in 186 BC, obtained Sicily as his province.[130]
  • Servius Cornelius P. f. Sulla, praetor in 175 BC, he obtained Sardinia as his province. He later served as a commissioner, sent to assist Lucius Aemilius Paullus in arranging the affairs of Macedonia, in 167 BC.[131][132]
  • Publius Cornelius Sulla, triumvir monetalis in 151 BC, possibly the uncle of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.[133]
  • Lucius Cornelius P. f. P. n. Sulla, son of the Publius Cornelius Sulla who was praetor in 186 BC, and father of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.[134]
  • Lucius Cornelius L. f. P. n. Sulla Felix, consul in 88 and 80, and dictator rei publicae constituendae causa from 82 to 81 BC.[135]
  • Servius Cornelius L. f. P. n. Sulla, brother of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.[136][137]
  • Cornelia L. f. L. n., daughter of the dictator by his first wife, Ilia; married first Quintus Pompeius Rufus, and after his death, Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus.
  • Cornelius L. f. L. n. Sulla, son of the dictator by his fourth wife, Caecilia Metella, died in the lifetime of his father.[138][139]
  • Faustus Cornelius L. f. L. n. Sulla, son of the dictator, was quaestor in 54 BC, and later a partisan of Pompeius.
  • Fausta Cornelia L. f. L. n., daughter of the dictator, and twin sister of Faustus Cornelius Sulla.
  • Cornelia L. f. L. n. Postuma, daughter of the dictator by his fifth wife, Valeria.[140]
  • Publius Cornelius Ser. f. L. n. Sulla, a nephew of the dictator, was elected consul in 66 BC, but was disqualified from the office.
  • Servius Cornelius Ser. f. L. n. Sulla, another nephew of the dictator, took part in both of the conspiracies of Catiline.[141][142]
  • Cornelia F. f. L. n., the daughter of Faustus Cornelius Sulla, and granddaughter of Lucius Cornelius Sulla the dictator.
  • Publius Cornelius P. f. Ser. n. Sulla, son of Publius Cornelius Sulla, the consul of 66 BC, may have been the father of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, consul in 5 BC.[143]
  • Lucius Cornelius P. f. P. n. Sulla, consul in 5 BC.[144][145]
  • Lucius Cornelius Sulla P. f. F. n. Felix, a member of the Arval Brethren, was a grandson of Faustus Cornelius Sulla, the quaestor of 54 BC. He died in AD 21. He was the father of Faustus, consul in AD 31, and Lucius, consul in 33.[146]
  • Faustus Cornelius L. f. P. n. Sulla, son of the Arval Sulla Felix, was consul suffectus in AD 31.
  • Lucius Cornelius L. f. P. n. Sulla Felix, another son of the Arval Sulla Felix, was consul in AD 33.[147][148]
  • Lucius Cornelius L. f. L. n. Sulla, son of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the consul of AD 33, was consul suffectus in AD 52.[55]
  • Faustus Cornelius L. f. L. n. Sulla Felix, son of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the consul of AD 52, was put to death by Nero in 63.
  • Cornelius Sulla, governor of Cappadocia, put to death by Elagabalus.[149]

Cornelii Dolabellae[]

Cornelii Merendae[]

  • , legate in 275 BC under the consul Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus, who rewarded him for taking a Samnite town.[166] He was then consul in 274.[167]
  • Publius Cornelius Merenda, failed candidate to the consulship in 217 BC.[168]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Merenda, praetor in Sardinia in 194 BC, and one of the ten ambassadors sent to Asia to negotiate and implement the Treaty of Apamea in 189 and 188.[169][170]

Cornelii Blasiones[]

  • , consul in 270 and 257 BC, and censor in 265. He might have been Princeps Senatus in the 240s and early 230s.[171]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Blasio, praetor in Sicily in 194 BC.[172]
  • Publius Cornelius Blasio, ambassador to the Carni, Istri, and Iapydes in 170 BC, and special commissioner in 168.[173]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Cn. f. Blasio, triumvir monetalis circa 112 BC.[174]

Cornelii Cethegi[]

Denarius of Cornelius Cethegus, minted 115–114 BC. The obverse shows the head of Roma with a Phrygian helmet, while the reverse possible depicts young Dionysus riding a he-goat.

Cornelii Mammulae[]

  • Aulus Cornelius Mammula, praetor at the beginning of the Second Punic War in 217 BC. As propraetor in Sardinia the following year, he unsuccessfully petitioned the Senate for money and supplies for his soldiers.[187][188]
  • Aulus Cornelius Mammula, praetor in 191 BC, subsequently received the province of Bruttium.[189][50]
  • Publius Cornelius Mammula, praetor in 180 BC, received the province of Sicily.[190][50]
  • Marcus Cornelius Mammula, one of four ambassadors sent to Perseus of Macedon and Ptolemy VI of Egypt in 173 BC.[191]

Cornelii Merulae[]

Cornelii Sisennae[]

  • Publius Cornelius Sisenna, praetor urbanus in 183 BC.[194][195]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Sisenna, praetor in Macedonia in 119 BC, then proconsul the following year.[196][197]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius L. f. Sisenna, triumvir monetalis between 118 and 107 BC.[198]
  • Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, praetor urbanus and peregrinus in 78 BC, then perhaps governor of Sicily; he was a supporter of Verres. Legate under Gnaeus Pompeius in 67, during the war against the pirates, he was sent to command the army based in Crete, but died soon after his arrival. Sisenna was a historian, whose work was greatly praised by Cicero and Sallust.[199][200]
  • Cornelius Sisenna, legate in Syria in 57 BC, serving under his father-in-law, Aulus Gabinius, the consul of the previous year.[iii] when Gabinius was prosecuted for bribery by Gaius Memmius, Sisenna pleaded with Memmius on Gabinius' behalf, but to no avail.[201][202][203]
  • Cornelius Sisenna, triumvir monetalis in 5 BC.[204]

Cornelii Cinnae[]

As of Lucius Cornelius Cinna (here spelt Cina), minted between 169 and 158 BC. The obverse depicts the head of Janus, while the reverse shows a prow.
  • Lucius Cornelius L. f. Cinna, triumvir monetalis between 169 and 158 BC, legate in 136, praetor by 130, and consul in 127.[205][206][207]
  • Lucius Cornelius L. f. L. n. Cinna, consul in 87 (deposed), and from 86 to 84 BC. He was the leader of the Populares after the death of Gaius Marius, but was murdered by his own soldiers during his fourth consulship.
  • Cornelia L. f. L. n., wife of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.
  • Cornelia L. f. L. n., sometimes known as Cinnilla, daughter of the consul of 87 BC, and wife of Julius Caesar.
  • Lucius Cornelius L. f. L. n. Cinna, praetor in 44, was almost murdered by a mob after denouncing his former brother-in-law, Julius Caesar, after the latter's assassination.
  • Lucius Cornelius L. f. L. n. Cinna, quaestor of Publius Cornelius Dolabella against Brutus in 44 BC. He was probably suffect consul in 32 BC.[208][209][210][211]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius L. f. L. n. Cinna Magnus, consul in AD 5, conspired against Augustus but was pardoned.[212][213]
  • (Cornelia) Magna, sister of Cinna Magnus.[211]

Cornelii Balbi[]

  • Lucius Cornelius Balbus, consul suffectus in 40 BC.
  • Publius Cornelius Balbus, brother of the consul of 40 BC.[214]
  • Lucius Cornelius P. f. Balbus, proconsul of Africa in 21 BC, triumphed over the Garamantes.

Other Cornelii during the Republic[]

  • Aulus Cornelius, quaestor in 459 BC, attempted the prosecution of Marcus Volscius Fictor for his part in the exile of Caeso Quinctius.[215][216]
  • , elected pontifex maximus circa 330 BC, without having first held any of the curule magistracies.[217]
  • Publius Cornelius, praetor in 234 BC, received the province of Sardinia. While there, he and many of those under his command he became sick and died.[218]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius, installed as flamen Dialis in 174 BC.[219]
  • Gaius Cornelius M. f., a senator in 129 BC. He was possibly a son of Marcus Cornelius Cethegus, consul in 160, as the Cethegi were the only Cornelii to use the praenomen Gaius at this time.[220]
  • Lucius Cornelius M. f., a senator in 129 BC. Despite having the same filiation, the two senators of 129 were not directly related, as Lucius belonged to the tribus Romilia and Gaius was from Stellatina.[221]
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Cn. f., of the Palatina tribe, a councilor of the consul Pompeius Strabo in 89 BC, possibly a military tribune. He might be one of the Dolabellae, or the father of Lentulus Clodianus.[222][223][224][225]
  • Cornelius, scriba in the dictatorship of Sulla, and quaestor during that of Caesar.[226][227]
  • Cornelius Phagita, captured Caesar when he was proscribed by Sulla in 82 BC.[228][229]
  • Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, a freedman of Greek origin, was a scholar, tutor, and writer on history and geography during the first half of the first century BC.
  • Gaius Cornelius, a quaestor serving under Pompeius, was tribune of the plebs in 67 BC.
  • Publius Cornelius, tribune of the plebs in 51 BC.[230]
  • Cornelius, a centurion in the army of Octavian in 43 BC, sent to Rome to demand the consulship for their general.[231]
  • Gaius Cornelius Gallus, poet, and prefect of Egypt in 30 BC.

Other Cornelii of imperial times[]

House of Cornelius Rufus, Pompeii
  • Cornelius Tlepolemus, a painter from Cibyra in Sicily, who came into the service of Verres. Cicero called him one of Verres' canes venatici, his hunting dogs.[232]
  • Cornelius Nepos, a historian and contemporary of Cicero.
  • Cornelius Severus, poet during the time of Augustus.[233]
  • Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a celebrated Latin writer on medicine, probably during the early part of the first century AD.
  • Cornelius Tuscus, a historian spoken of by Seneca the Elder, who accused Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus of majestas in AD 34.[234][235]
  • Cornelius Fuscus, a Roman general and supporter of Vespasian.
  • Cornelius Fuscus, probably son of the general, written to by the younger Pliny.[236]
  • Cornelius Martialis, served in the army of Titus Flavius Sabinus, and perished in the burning of the Capitol, in AD 69.[237]
  • Cornelius Laco, prefect of the Praetorian Guard under the emperor Galba, AD 69.
  • Publius Cornelius Tacitus, one of the most celebrated Roman historians, who chronicled the first century of the Empire.[238]
  • Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus, consul in AD 99 and 109, put to death by Hadrian in AD 117.
  • Servius Cornelius, a jurist in the time of Hadrian.[239]
  • Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla, consul suffectus in either AD 72 or 73.[240]
  • Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messala, consul in AD 90 and son of the homonymous consul.[241]
  • Quintus Cornelius Senecio Annianus, consul suffectus in AD 142. His brother, Proculus, was consul four years later.
  • Marcus Cornelius Fronto, a famous orator, and consul suffectus in AD 143.[242]
  • Quintus Cornelius Proculus, the brother of Annianus, was consul suffectus in AD 146.
  • Quintus Cornelius Quadratus, consul in AD 147 and brother of the orator.
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Severus, consul in AD 152.
  • Sextus Cornelius Repentinus, praetorian prefect from AD 160 to 167.
  • Cornelius Repentinus, praefectus urbi, son of the praetorian prefect, and son-in-law of the emperor Didius Julianus.
  • Julia Cornelia Paula, empress and first wife of the emperor Elagabalus, from AD 219 to 220.
  • Titus Cornelius Celsus, one of the Thirty Tyrants (Roman) enumerated by Trebellius Pollio in the Augustan History.
  • Publius Cornelius Saecularis, consul circa AD 240, and again in 260.
  • Cornelius Rufus, a Roman whose house was found in Pompeii.

See also[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology gives his name as Servius Cornelius Cossus Maluginensis, with the implication that the surnames of Cossus and Maluginensis properly belonged to all of the Cornelii before the 430s, when the two branches of the family diverged. However, the authority for this supposition is unclear, as Servius is not given a surname in either Livy or Dionysius, and nowhere are the two surnames united in the Fasti Capitolini.
  2. ^ Mommsen thought that Caudinus was princeps senatus as he spoke first during the debate on the declaration of war against Carthage in 219 BC, but Suolahti and Ryan reject it as several more senior censors were still living by this date.
  3. ^ Sisenna is frequently misidentified as the son, rather than the son-in-law, of Gabinius.

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  2. ^ Chase, p. 124.
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  4. ^ a b Chase, pp. 112, 113.
  5. ^ Macrobius, i. 6.
  6. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 739–741 ("Scipio").
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  8. ^ Chase, pp. 110–113.
  9. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, pp. 728, 729 ("Lentulus").
  10. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares iii. 7. § 5.
  11. ^ Livy, ix. 4.
  12. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum i. 19. § 2.
  13. ^ Pliny the Elder, xviii. 3.
  14. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 933–944 ("Sulla").
  15. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Sulla", 2.
  16. ^ Macrobius, Saturnalia, i. 17.
  17. ^ Quintilian, i. 4. § 25.
  18. ^ Chase, p. 111.
  19. ^ New College Latin & English Dictionary, s. v. dolabra.
  20. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 675, 676 ("Cethegus").
  21. ^ Horace, Ars Poëtica, 50.
  22. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 913 ("Mammula").
  23. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 1049 ("Merula").
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  45. ^ Coarelli, Revixit ars, p. 235.
  46. ^ Etcheto, Les Scipions, pp. 272, 273, who disputes the attribution to Nasica Corculum and favours Publius Cornelius Scipio, the grandson of Africanus and Flamen Dialis.
  47. ^ Broughton, The Magistrates of Roman Republic, vol. I, pp. 88–90.
  48. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 145, 166.
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  65. ^ Pliny the Elder, ii. 31.
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  69. ^ PIR ² C 1440
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  76. ^ CIL VIII, 24.
  77. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 44 ("Orfitus", no. 7).
  78. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 44 ("Orfitus", no. 10).
  79. ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, pp. 191, 312.
  80. ^ CIL VI, 1980, CIL VI, 1981.
  81. ^ CIL VI, 402, CIL VI, 505, CIL VI, 506
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  83. ^ Symmachus, Epistulae, V. 64; VII. 128.
  84. ^ PLRE, vol. I, p. 810.
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  86. ^ Livy, x. 1.
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  89. ^ Livy, xxvii. 21.
  90. ^ Livy, xxviii. 10, xxix. 2.
  91. ^ Livy, xxix. 38.
  92. ^ Livy, xxxii. 2.
  93. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 319, 322 (note 1), 329.
  94. ^ Livy, xlii. 37, 47, 49, 56, xliii. 15.
  95. ^ Livy, xlii. 37, 47, 49, 56.
  96. ^ Livy, xlv. 1.
  97. ^ Frontinus, De Aquaeductu, 7.
  98. ^ Florus, iii. 19, 7.
  99. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 576.
  100. ^ Appian, Civil Wars, 1. 40, 72.
  101. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 730 ("Lentulus", no. 19).
  102. ^ RE, vol. iv.1, col. 1375; suppl. 3, col. 260 (Cornelius 203).
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  104. ^ Cicero, Brutus, 36.
  105. ^ Appian, Bella Mithridatica, 95.
  106. ^ Orelli, Onomasticon Tullianum, p. 177.
  107. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem.
  108. ^ Broughton, vol. II, p. 274.
  109. ^ Caesar, De Bello Civili, iii. 62–65.
  110. ^ Orosius, vi. 15.
  111. ^ Valerius Maximus, vi. 7. § 3.
  112. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, iv. 39.
  113. ^ Cassius Dio, liv. 12.
  114. ^ Cassius Dio, liv. 12, Arg. liv.
  115. ^ Riccio, Monete Consolari, p. 52.
  116. ^ Cassius Dio.
  117. ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Galba", 4.
  118. ^ Tacitus, Annales, iii. 74.
  119. ^ Ehrenberg and Jones, Documents Illustrating the Reigns of Augustus & Tiberius, p. 42.
  120. ^ Ingemar König, Der römische Staat II, Die Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 1997, p. 468
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  122. ^ Frontinus, De Aquaeductu, 102.
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  124. ^ Livy, viii. 17.
  125. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 140, 141.
  126. ^ Münzer, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families, p. 195.
  127. ^ Münzer, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families, pp. 110, 111, who incorrectly calls him Lucius.
  128. ^ Rüpke, Fasti Sacerdotum, p. 644.
  129. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 268.
  130. ^ Livy, xxxix. 6, 8.
  131. ^ Livy, xlv. 17.
  132. ^ Münzer, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families, p. 200.
  133. ^ Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, pp. 249, 250.
  134. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Sulla", 1.
  135. ^ Münzer, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families, v. II.
  136. ^ Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline, 17.
  137. ^ Cassius Dio, xxxvi. 27.
  138. ^ Seneca the Younger, De Consolatione, 12.
  139. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Sulla", 37.
  140. ^ Mika Kajava, Roman Female Praenomina: Studies in the Nomenclature of Roman Women (1994).
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  142. ^ Cicero, Pro Sulla, 2.
  143. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares xv. 17; Pro Sulla 31.
  144. ^ Pliny the Elder, vii. 11. s. 13.
  145. ^ Cassius Dio, index, lib. lv.
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  147. ^ Cassius Dio, lviii. 20.
  148. ^ Tacitus, Annales, vi. 15.
  149. ^ Cassius Dio, lxxix. 4.
  150. ^ Livy, xxvii. 36, xl. 42.
  151. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 1058 ("Dolabella", no. 5).
  152. ^ Fasti Triumphales.
  153. ^ Cicero, Pro Caecina, 8.
  154. ^ Valerius Maximus, viii. 1; Ambustae, § 2.
  155. ^ PIR, vol. I, no. 1092.
  156. ^ Camodeca: "I consoli des 55–56".
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  159. ^ PIR, vol. I, no. 1090.
  160. ^ Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", p. 190.
  161. ^ a b Fasti Ostienses, CIL XIV, 244.
  162. ^ PIR, vol. I, no. 1096.
  163. ^ PIR, vol. I, no. 1097.
  164. ^ PIR, vol. I, no. 1094.
  165. ^ PIR, vol. I, no. 1095.
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  167. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 196.
  168. ^ Livy, xxii. 35.
  169. ^ Livy, xxxiv. 42, 43, xxxvii. 55, xxxviii. 38.
  170. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 343, 363, 365 (note 8), 367. Livy's manuscripts mention "Merula", but Broughton thinks it should be Merenda as the ambassadors were only former consuls and praetors.
  171. ^ Ryan, Rank and Participation, pp. 219–221, 223.
  172. ^ Livy, xxxiv. 42, 43.
  173. ^ Livy, xliii. 7, xlv. 13.
  174. ^ Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 309–311.
  175. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Marcellus", 5.
  176. ^ Valerius Maximus, i. 1. § 4.
  177. ^ Münzer, "Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families", p. 232.
  178. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 232, 263, 266, 267 (note 4), 273, 277 (note 3), 285, 305, 306.
  179. ^ Livy, xxxix. 32, 38, 39.
  180. ^ Livy, Epitome, 49.
  181. ^ Cicero, De Oratore, i. 52; Brutus, 23; Epistulae ad Atticum, xii. 5.
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  184. ^ Cicero, Pro Sulla, 2, 6, 18.
  185. ^ Ampelius, 19.
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  190. ^ Livy, xl. 35.
  191. ^ Livy, xlii. 6.
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  193. ^ Münzer, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families, p. 444.
  194. ^ Livy, xxxix. 45.
  195. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 378.
  196. ^ SIG, 705.
  197. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 528 (note 2).
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  199. ^ Cassius Dio, xxxvi. 18, 19.
  200. ^ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 86, 90, 148.
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  202. ^ Cassius Dio, xxxix. 56.
  203. ^ Broughton, vol. II, p. 204.
  204. ^ Mattingly et al., Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. I, pp. 76, 77.
  205. ^ Fasti Siculi.
  206. ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 487, 502, 507.
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  208. ^ Cicero, Philippicae x. 6.
  209. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Brutus", 25.
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  219. ^ Münzer, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families, p. 406.
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