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LUCIUS CORNELIUS LENTULUS

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LUCIUS See also:CORNELIUS See also:LENTULUS , surnamed CRUS Or CRUSCELLO (for what See also:reason is unknown), member of the See also:anti-Caesarian party. In 61 B.C. he was the See also:chief accuser of P. See also:Clodius (q.v.) in the affair of the festival of See also:Bona See also:Dee. When See also:consul (49) he advised the rejection of all See also:peace terms offered by See also:Caesar, and declared that, if the See also:senate did not at once decide uponcpposing him by force of arms, he would See also:act upon his own responsibility. There seems no reason to doubt that Lentulus was mainly inspired by selfish motives, and hoped to find in See also:civil See also:war an opportunity for his own aggrandizement But in spite of his brave words he fled in haste from See also:Rome as soon as he heard of Caesar's advance, and crossed over to See also:Greece. After Pharsalus, he made his way to See also:Rhodes (but. was refused See also:admission), thence, by way of See also:Cyprus, to See also:Egypt. He landed at See also:Pelusium the See also:day after the See also:murder of See also:Pompey, was immediately seized by See also:Ptolemy, imprisoned, and put to See also:death. See Caesar, See also:Bell. Cie. i. 4, iii. 104; See also:Plutarch, Pompey, 80. A full See also:account of the different Cornelii Lentuli, with genealogical table, will be found in Pauly-\Vissowa's Realencyclopddie, iv. pt.

1, p. 1355 (1900) (s.v. " Cornelius "); see also V. de Vtt, Onomasticon, ii. 433.

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