Lentulus
Λέντλος
Λέντλος, the name of one of the haughtiest patrician families of the Cornelian Gens [CORNELIA GENS]; so that Cicero coins the words Appietas and Lentulitas to express the qualities of the high patrician party (ad Fam. 3.7.5). When we find plebeians bearing the name (as a tribune of the plebs, Cic. pro Lege Manil. 19), they were no doubt descendants of freedmen. The name was evidently derived from lens, like Cicero from cicer, &c. (Cic. Att. 1.19.2; Plin. Nat. 18.3.)
For the Lentuli Marcellini, see MARCELLUS.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.