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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LENTULUS , the name of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman patrician See also:

FAMILY

family of the Cornelian gens, derived from lentes (" lentils "), which its See also:

OLDEST

oldest members were fond of cultivating (according to See also:

Pliny, Nat. Hist. xviii. 3, 1o). The word Lentulitas (" Lentulism "; cf. ApJiietas) is coined by See also:

CICERO

Cicero (Ad See also:

FARM

Farm iii. 7, 5 ) to See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express the attributes of a pronounced aristocrat. The three first of the name were L. See also:

Cornelius Lentulus (See also:

consul 327 B.C.), Servius Cornelius Lentulus (consul 303) and L. Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus (consul 275). Their connexion with the later Lentuli (especially those of the Ciceronian See also:

period) is very obscure and difficult to establish. The following members of the family deserve mention.

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