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Marcus Cornelius Cethegus (-196 BC) was a Roman Republican consul and ''censor'' during the Second Punic War, best known as a political ally of his kinsman Scipio Africanus. ==Political career== He was chosen curule aedile in 213 BC, with his young kinsman Scipio Africanus as his colleague (although Scipio was under-age, being only twenty two or twenty three compared to the usual mid-thirties).〔Livy xxv.2〕 He was also ''Pontifex'' replacing the dead Pontifex maximus Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus.〔Livy xxv.41〕 In 211 BC, as ''praetor'', he had charge of Apulia. In 209 BC, before he had been consul, he was elected ''censor'' with Publius Sempronius Tuditanus. During their censorship, Cethegus disagreed with his colleague about which senator should be elected ''Princeps Senatus''; Tuditanus had the right of choice and chose Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucoses Cunctator, while Cethegus wanted the most senior ''censor'' Titus Manlius Torquatus to be the ''Princeps Senatus.''〔Livy xxvii.11〕 In 204 BC, he was elected ''consul'', possibly to aid his kinsman Scipio, then in Africa. In 203 BC he was ''proconsul'' in Italia Superior, where, in conjunction with the ''praetor'' Publius Quintilius Varus, he gained a hard-won victory over Mago Barca, Hannibal's brother, in Insubrian territory, and obliged him to leave Italy.〔Livy xxx.18〕 He died in 196 BC during an epidemic in Rome. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcus Cornelius Cethegus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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