Cossus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus (consul 1 BC)

Cornelius Lentulus Cossus was a Roman politician and senator and lived around the time of Christ.

Lentulus was a son of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus, consul in 18 BC In the year 1 BC, he was at the Lucius Calpurnius Piso of " Augur " page ordinary consul. From probably 6-8 he was proconsul of the province of Africa for two years. Here he was successful against the Gaetuler and Musulamier, for which he was honored with the triumph insignia and the nickname Gaetulicus. After the death of Augustus, he was a close confidant of the new emperor Tiberius. From 33 to 36 he served as Praefectus urbi.

The Roman philosopher and civil servants Seneca, a contemporary of Cossus, called him " a man, serious, set, but lost in the wine and of him dripping, to such an extent that it consists of the Senate, in which he had come from a binge once, was overwhelmed by a death-like sleep, carried away. " After Seneca him " Tiberius still many things with his own hand, which he did not even know his ministers entrusted. " Wrote For Seneca Cossus was an example of a man who, despite weaknesses private office perfectly managed, " Cossu is neither a private secret nor a political escaped ".

Lentulus was a member of the priestly college of Quindecimviri sacris faciundis. His sons were Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus and Cornelius Lentulus Cossus.