Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus (consul 275 BC) explained

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus (consul 275 BC) should not be confused with Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus (consul 237 BC).

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus was a Roman politician in the third century BC.

Family

He was a member of gens Cornelia. His sons were the consuls Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus in 237 and 236 BC, respectively.

Career

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus served as consul in 275 BC with Manius Curius Dentatus as his colleague.[1] While Dentatus was fighting against Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, Cornelius defeated the Samnites, triumphed and assumed the cognomen Caudinus.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Hans George Gundel: The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity Ch.3 p.174
  2. Book: Broughton, Robert S. . The Magistrates of the Roman Republic 509 - 100 BC.

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