was the name of two related (cousins?) people's tribunes of the year 187 BC. They accused (at the instigation of Cato [1]?) L. Cornelius [I 72] Scipio before the Senate of the misappropriation of state funds (peculatus) during the war against Antiochus [5] III and demanded an explanation. L.'s brother P. Cor…
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Schmitt, Tassilo (Bielefeld),
Fündling, Jörg (Bonn) and
Eck, Werner (Cologne),
“Petillius”, in:
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