Cornelius Lupus

Cornelius Lupus was a Roman senator active during the Principate. The offices Lupus held included the Proconsul of Creta et Cyrenaica during the reign of Emperor Tiberius, and most significantly the suffect consul for an unknown number of months in AD 42 as the colleague of Gaius Caecina Largus.[1] During the reign of Tiberius, there are also preserved coins that were made under his magistrate[2] in Crete, which was prefered for minting coins as there was a minting imbalance in the region of Crete and Cyrenaica.[3]

Despite being a friend of the emperor Claudius, Lupus was one of the victims of the notorious delator or informer Publius Suillius Rufus, whose prosecution destroyed Lupus.[4]

References

  1. ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 408, 424
  2. ^ "RPC — Search: Browse". rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  3. ^ Sborōnos, Iōannēs N.; Pick, Behrendt; Higgie, L. W. (1975). Corpus of the ancient coins of Athens (New ed. with English transl. of the French text, new indices ed.). Chicago, Ill: Ares Publ. ISBN 978-0-89005-010-1.
  4. ^ Tacitus, Annales, XIII.43
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