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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS LENTULUS

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CORNELIUS See also:LENTULUS , called SPINTHER from his likeness to an actor of that name, one of the See also:chief adherents of the Pompeian party. In 63 n.c. he was See also:curule See also:aedile, assisted See also:Cicero in the suppression of the Catilinarian See also:conspiracy, and distinguished himself by the splendour of the See also:games he provided. See also:Praetor in 6o, he obtained the governorship of Hispania Citerior (59) through the support of See also:Caesar, to whom he was also indebted for his See also:election to the consulship (57). Lentulus played a prominent See also:part in the recall of Cicero from See also:exile, and although a temporary coolness seems to have arisen between them, Cicero speaks of him in most grateful terms. From 56—53 Lentulus was See also:governor of the See also:province of See also:Cilicia (with See also:Cyprus) and during that See also:time was commissioned by the See also:senate to restore See also:Ptolemy XI. Auletes to his See also:kingdom (see See also:PTOLEMIES). The Sibylline books, however, declared that the See also:king must not be restored by force of arms, at the See also:risk of peril to See also:Rome. As a provincial governor, Lentulus appears to have looked after the interests of his subjects, and did not enrich himself at their expense. In spite of his indebtedness to Caesar, Lentulus joined the Pompeians on the outbreak of See also:civil See also:war (49). The generosity with which he was treated by Caesar after the See also:capitulation of See also:Corfinium made him hesitate, but he finally decided in favour of See also:Pompey. After the See also:battle of Pharsalus, Lentulus escaped to See also:Rhodes, where he was at first refused See also:admission, although he subsequently found an See also:asylum there (Cicero, Ad Alt. xi. 13.

1). According to Aurelius See also:

Victor (De vir. See also:ill. lxxviii., 9, if the See also:reading be correct), he subsequently See also:fell into Caesar's hands and was put to See also:death. See also:Gee Caesar, See also:Bell. Cie. i. 15-23, iii. 102; See also:Plutarch, Pomp. 49; See also:Valerius See also:Maximus ix. 14, 4; many letters of Cicero, especially Ad Fu,n. i. i-9.

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