people
the Cornelii
Cornelii
also: gens Cornelia
The gens Cornelia, one of Rome's greatest patrician houses (the Scipios, Sullae, Lentuli, Cinnae among its branches); Seneca cites 'one of the Cornelii' as a type of the austere old aedile.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §86.10 Cornelii
The gens Cornelia, one of Rome's foremost patrician houses; 'one of the Cornelii' stands for the noblest sort of old-fashioned aedile.