#publius cornelius lentulus spinther

[garland-on-thy-brow]

What is it with cringefail conspiracy Lentuli? I can name four:

Lentulus Sura, Dolabella, Lentulus Spinther quaestor 44 bce (the least cringefail in comparison to others), and Lentulus La clemenza di Tito.

The first one is Antony's stepfather; the second is Antony's whatever the relationship is called when you hate each other, conspire together, and may or may not have fucked. I do not know how Lentulus Sura was related to the Lentulus who adopted Dolabella, but a close kinship would be funny.

[e-pistulae]

in today's letter: remember the letter the other day when lentulus said 'You will find out how much the Rhodians spurned me and the Republic from the official letter I have sent. In fact, I have written much more sparingly than I found their madness deserved'? this is the letter where he complains about the rhodians for one billion paragraphs. they made him go on an embarrassingly small boat :( also dolabella continues to have a bad time, cassius continues to be sexy, and not even civil war can stop romans from collecting taxes

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[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

trial of Publius Clodius Pulcher

date: 61 BCE, over by May 15 charge: quaestio extraordinaria (sacrilege at rites of Bona Dea) defendant: P. Clodius Pulcher q. 61-60, aed. cur. 56 advocate: C. Scribonius Curio cos. 76, cens. 612 (ORF 86.IV) prosecutors: L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus cos. 49 (nom. del. (ORF 157.I) Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus cos. 56 (subscr.) L. Cornelius Lentulus Niger pr. by 61 (subscr.) C. Fannius pr. by 54 or in 50 (subscr.) jurors: P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther cos. 57 (voted C) (Iuventius?) Talna (voted A) Plautus sen.? (voted A) Spongia (voted A)  witnesses: Aurelia C. Causinius Schola of Interamna, e.R. Habra? Iulia C. Iulius Caesar procos. Farther Spain 61, cos. 59, 48, 46, 45, 44 L. Licinius Lucullus cos. 74 M. Porcius Cato pr. 54 M. Tullius Cicero cos. 63 (Crawford, Orations 27) other: suspicion of bribery

Cic. Att. 1.12.3, 1.16.1-6, 1.17.8; Har. 37; Pis. 95; Mil. 46, 73, 87; Liv. Per. 103; V. Max. 4.2.5, 8.5.5, 9.1.7; Asc. 49C; Sen. Ep. 97.2-10; Quint. Inst. 4.2.88; Suet. Jul. 74; App. BCiv. 2.14; Plut. Caes. 10; Cic. 29; Dio 39.6.2; Schol. Bob. 85-91 (in Clod. et Cur.)