Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Lupus (consul 156 BC)

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Lupus (died 125 BC) served as a Roman consul in 156 BC alongside his colleague Gaius Marcius Figulus.[1][2]

Lupus was a member of the Lentuli branch of the gens Cornelia, an elite patrician family. The Latin author Lucilius criticizes Lupus for a decadent and corrupt lifestyle.[3] Lupus was a member of the priestly college decemviri sacris faciundis.[4] He was charged with extortion,[5] yet still became censor in 147 BC. From 131 to 125 BC he was the princeps senatus.

References
  1. Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1951). The magistrates of the Roman Republic. 1. 509 B.C. - 100 B.C. American Philological Association.
  2. Cicero (23 February 2006). On Government. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 492–. ISBN 978-0-14-191253-0.
  3. Catherine Connors (12 May 2005). The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 127–. ISBN 978-0-521-80359-5.
  4. Karl-Ludwig Elvers: Cornelius I 51. In: Der Neue Pauly (DNP). Band 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8, Sp. 175.
  5. Valerius Maximus 5.9.10
Preceded by
Sextus Julius Caesar and
Lucius Aurelius Orestes		 Consul of the Roman Republic
156 BC
with Gaius Marcius Figulus		 Succeeded by
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
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