Cornelius Bocchus

Cornelius was a Roman historian Bocchus. He is quoted by Solinus as Bocchus in three places as a source, and by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis historia under the name Cornelius Bocchus as authority for the culture of the Iberian Peninsula. The identity of the two authors postulated by Theodor Mommsen, who saw the author of a historical work and several special writings on Spain in Cornelius Bocchus. From these works has not survived as the quotations in Solinus and Pliny.

The name L. Cornelius C. f Bocchus immersed in two Lusitanian inscriptions (CIL 02, 35 and CIL 02, 5184 ) and refers to a Flemish (priest) and a military tribune of the III. Legion. Whether both inscriptions refer to the Author Cornelius Bocchus or different, unrelated people are due, is not clear. The further career of the military tribunes were the offices Prefect fabrum, pontifex perpetuus and flamen perpetuus at the community level. He later rose to the Flemish province of Lusitania. He was also the Prefect Ceasarum up.