Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor)
- Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor)
Lucius Cornelius Balbus (called Minor to distinguish from his uncle), received the Roman citizenship at the same time as his uncle.
During the civil war, he served under Julius Caesar, by whom he was entrusted with several important missions. He also took part in the Alexandrian and Spanish wars. He was rewarded for his services by being admitted into the college of pontiffs. In 43 BC he was quaestor to Asinius Pollio in Further Spain ("Hispania Ulterior"), where he amassed a large fortune by plundering the inhabitants. Also, while there added to his native town, Gades, a suburb.
In the same year he crossed over to Bogud, king of Mauretania, and is not heard of again until 21 BC, when he appears as Proconsul of Africa. Mommsen thinks that he had incurred the displeasure of Augustus by his conduct as praetor, and that his African appointment after so many years was due to his exceptional fitness for the post.
In 19 BC Balbus defeated the Garamantes, and on March 27 in that year received the honor of a triumph, which was then for the first time granted to one who was not a Roman citizen by birth, and for the last time to a private individual, until the triumph of Belisarius in 534. He built a magnificent theatre at Rome, which was dedicated on the return of Augustus from Gaul in 13 BC (Dio Cassius liv. 25; Pliny, "Nat. Hist." xxxvi. 12. 60).
Balbus appears to have given some attention to literature. He wrote a play of which the subject was his visit to Lentulus in the camp of Pompey at Dyrrhachium, and, according to Macrobius ("Saturnalia", iii. 6), was the author of a work called "Εξηγητκα" dealing with the gods and their worship.
References
*1911
*"This article incorporates text from" William Smith, "A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography", 1851, "a publication now in the public domain.
*See Velleius Paterculus ii. 51; Cicero, "ad Att." viii. 9; and on both the above the exhaustive articles in Pauly-Wissowa, "Realencyclopadie", iv. pt. i. (1900).
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