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Lucius Cornelius Sulla (consul 5 BC)

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Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman senator of the Augustan age. He was ordinary consul as the colleague of Augustus in 5 BC.[1] The only other office attested for him was as a member of the Septemviri epulonum, which he was co-opted into after his praetorship.[2]

Ronald Syme believed he was a son of Publius Cornelius Sulla, designated consul for 65 BC, which made him a grandnephew of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.[3] The son of Lucius, Cornelius Sulla, was expelled from the Senate by Tiberius in AD 17.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
  2. ^ CIL VI, 1390 = ILS 920
  3. ^ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 86
  4. ^ Tacitus, Annales, ii.48

Further reading

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Political offices
Preceded byas Ordinary consuls Consul of the Roman Empire
5 BC
with Imp. Caesar Divi filius Augustus XII
Succeeded byas Suffect consuls