Lucius Cornelius was general during the Social War and an ally of Marius and Sertorius who took Rome in 87 BC and held it after Marius's death, attempting to keep the empire from Civil war with Sulla that was rendered useless by his assasination in 84.
Lucius Cornelius was general during the Social War and an ally of Marius and Sertorius who took Rome in 87 BC and held it after Marius's death, attempting to keep the empire from Civil war with Sulla that was rendered useless by his assasination in 84. His son, Lucius Cornelius, joined the mutiny of Lepidus and fought with Sertorius in Spain, and though his pardon from Caesar allowed him to return to Rome he expressed happines at Caesar's assasination, leading to an attempt on his life by the Roman mob. FTP give the common cognomen also shared, unfortunately, by Gaius Helvius, poet of the epic Smyrna mistaken for a conspirator and successfully killed by the mob "for his bad verses" as dramatised by Shakespeare.
Lucius Cornelius was general during the Social War and an ally of Marius and Sertorius who took Rome in 87 BC and held it after Marius's death, attempting to keep the empire from Civil war with Sulla that was rendered useless by his assasination in 84.
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