Quintus Cornificius
Quintus Cornificius (died 42 BC) was an ancient Roman of senatorial rank from the gens Cornificia. He was a general, orator and poet, a friend of Catullus and a correspondent of Cicero. He was also an augur.
Quintus Cornificius
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- 42 · Utica.
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- Ancient Rome
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- politician · military personnel · poet · orator
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- Latin
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He wrote a now lost epyllion titled Glaucus. During the Roman civil war of 49–45 BC, Cornificius sided with Julius Caesar against Gnaeus Pompeius. In 46, he was sent to Cilicia, probably as legatus pro praetore, and then to Syria, where he prosecuted the war against Quintus Caecilius Bassus. In 45 BC, he was made a praetor and in the summer of 44 BC, after the assassination of Caesar, he was appointed governor of the province of Africa Vetus by the senate. Later in 46 BC, the senate, under the influence of Marcus Antonius, appointed Gaius Calvisius Sabinus governor of Africa Vetus, but Cornificius refused to give up the province. In 43 BC, the Second Triumvirate, including Antonius, had him proscribed and his province given to Titus Sextius. He was defeated and killed in battle near Utica in 42 BC. A monument in Rome to Cornificius' sister Cornificia, also a poet, reads: CORNIFICIA Q. AUGUR (Cornificia, the daughter of Quintus, wife of Camerius, her brother Quintus Cornificius, son of Quintus, praetor and augur). At some point he was betrothed to the daughter of Aurelia Orestilla, widow of Catiline.
Aureus de Quintus Cornificius, vers 45 av.J.C. Or, 7,89 gr.
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Aureus decouvert lors des fouilles de la rue des Farges (1974-1980) à Lyon (France). Africa personnifiée, coiffée d'une tête d'éléphant, frappée en Africa en 43 av. J.-C. 21 mm de diamètre, 7,953 g, ref. Crawford 509/3. Conservé au musée gallo-romain de Lyon.
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- 1.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xii. 25.
- 2.Quintus Asconius Pedianus, in Cic. Mil., 40, 54 (ed. Orelli).
- 3.Quintus Asconius Pedianus, in Cic. Mil., 37.
- 4.CIL 06 01300a R= .
- 5.Dominique Hollard, « Le monnayage de la Legio III Cyrenaica frappé à Bostra sous Antonin le Pieux », Revue numismatique, 6e série - Tome 160, année 2004, p. 168, note 68 lire en ligne.
- 6.Theodore John Cadoux and Robin J. Seager, "Cornificius, Quintus", in Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
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- Le Monnayage de Q. Cornuficius : à propos de la découverte de la rue des Farges à Lyon, 1978. 2001_2002.
- Q. Cornificius. Aurei e Denari in Africa Vetus (RRC 509/1-5). 2018.
- Jadis, rue des Farges: archéologie d'un quartier de Lyon antique: exposition au Musée de la civilisation gallo-romaine de Lyon du 22 novembre 1985 au 2 mars 1986. Groupe Lyonnais de recherche en archéologie gallo-romaine. 1985.
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