person
Lucius Mummius
also: L. Mummio, L. Mummius
L. Mummius Achaicus, consul 146 BC and conqueror of the Achaean League; his sack of Corinth and the celebrated triumph of 145, bringing Greek statuary in unprecedented quantity to Rome, made him a moral exemplum either of upright restraint (so Cicero, Verr. 2.1.55; 2.4.4) or of philistine ignorance (so the anecdotes about his shipping art-treasures).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.4 §1 Mummius was consul
L. Mummius (Achaicus), consul 146 BC and the destroyer of Corinth; not to be confused with his brother Sp. Mummius, the legate (see 13.5).
- Ad Atticum 13.5 §1 it was his brother
L. Mummius Achaicus, consul 146 BC and sacker of Corinth; Cicero decides it was he, not Spurius, who served among the ten legates, "for he was the one at Corinth."
- Ad Atticum 13.33 §3 the consulship of Gnaeus Cornelius and Lucius Mummius
A dating formula for 146 BC, the year Corinth was destroyed: the consuls were Cn. Cornelius Lentulus and L. Mummius. Cicero wants the senatorial decree of that year located in the archive of senatus consulta to settle the membership of the commission.
- On Duties §2.76 Lucius Mummius
Lucius Mummius, consul 146 BC, who sacked Corinth (the ``most prosperous city in the world'') in the same year and adorned Italy with its art rather than enriching his own house.
- Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I §55 Lucius Mummius
L. Mummius Achaicus, consul 146 BC, sacked Corinth and reduced Achaia to a province; his triumph distributed art across Italy. The proverb of Mummius's plain manners (he could not tell an old master from a copy) is the foil for Verres's connoisseur greed.