Cornelius Lentulus

Also known as: Lentulus / Sura / young Lentulus · Family: Roman · Role: patrician · First appears: Fabius

Life events

• Aemilius Paulus refused escape and threw himself onto the enemy's swords.(Fabius · 📍 Cannae)
  • With: Aemilius Paulus
  • “Having dispatched Lentulus with this commission, he marked where the slaughter was greatest, and there threw himself upon the swords of the enemy.”
• Cicero delivered Lentulus, Cethegus, and the other conspirators for execution.(Cicero · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Cicero Cethegus
  • “Thus passing from the market-place, and coming to the gaol, he delivered Lentulus to the officer, and commanded him to execute him; and after him Cethegus, and so all the rest in order, he brought and delivered up to execution.”

Fabius

• with Aemilius Paulus (Lentulus offered his horse to the wounded Paulus.) “At last Cornelius Lentulus, a young man of patrician race, perceiving who he was, alighted from his horse, and, tendering it to him, desired him to get up and save a life so necessary to the safety of the commonwealth”

Cicero

• married with Tullia “to whom she had been married after the death of Piso, her former husband”

Antony

• married with Julia “she being, after the death of his father, remarried to Cornelius Lentulus”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.