Lucius Cornelius Priscus

Lucius Cornelius Priscus was a Roman senator of the 2nd century AD. Only two of the offices that Priscus held are known. Around the year 104 he was suffect consul. The other office was as proconsular governor of Asia in 120/121.^[1]

Priscus is better known for being an acquaintance of Pliny the Younger. Pliny wrote him a letter, which is preserved in his collection of letters, about the death of the poet Martial (III.21). In another letter, Pliny mentions Priscus' presence at the lawsuit between a delegation from the province of Bithynia and Pontus and Varenus Rufus, who had been their proconsular governor in 105/106 (V.20.7). Priscus made the motion, that was approved by the Senate, to investigate both the accusations of the Bithynians, and of the counter-claims Rufus had made.

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