Lentulus
33. L. Cornelius Lentulus Niger, flamen of Mars (Cic. Att. 12.7, in Vatin. 10; comp. Ascon. ad Cic. Scaur. sub fin.). At his dedication by the augur L. Caesar, he gave a sumptuous dinner (Macr. 2.9). In B. C. 58, he stood for the consulship, though Caesar tried to put him down by implicating him in an attempt on Pompey's life (Cic. in Vatin. 10; comp. ad Att. 2.24). In 57, he was one of the priests to whom was referred the question whether the site of Cicero's house was consecrated ground (De Harusp. Resp. 6, comp. pro Dom. 49, 52). He is also mentioned as one of the judges in the case of P. Sextius, B. C. 56 (in Vatin. l.c., ad Q. Fr. 2.3, 5). He died in the same year, much praised by Cicero (Cic. Att. 4.6).
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.