Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman senator of the Augustan age. He was ordinary consul as the colleague of Augustus in 5 BC. The only other office attested for him was as a member of the Septemviri epulonum, which he was co-opted into after his praetorship.
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. The son of Lucius, Cornelius Sulla, was expelled from the Senate by Tiberius in AD 17.
References
- Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
- CIL VI, 1390 = ILS 920
- Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 86
- Tacitus, Annales, ii.48
Further reading
- Werner Eck, "Cornelius " in Brill's New Pauly (online edition).
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) C 1460
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byDecimus Laelius Balbus, and Gaius Antistius Vetusas Ordinary consuls |
Consul of the Roman Empire 5 BC with Imp. Caesar Divi filius Augustus XII |
Succeeded byQuintus Haterius, and Lucius Viniciusas Suffect consuls |