person
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus
Lentulus
also: L. Lentulus
Consul 49 BC; staunch Pompeian; killed in Egypt in 48 BC after Pharsalus.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.12 §2 Lentulus the consul
L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus, one of the two consuls of 49 BC and a leading hardliner against Caesar; Cicero met him at Formiae as the Pompeian command fell into confusion.
- Ad Atticum 15.3 §1 conducted in the temple of Apollo in the consulship of Lentulus and Marcellus
A pointed recollection of the Senate meeting in the temple of Apollo (outside the pomerium) on 1 January 49 BC, under the consuls L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus and C. Claudius Marcellus, when the hardliners forced the breach with Caesar; Cicero says the present crisis is not really comparable.