Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis (consul 436 BC)


Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis was a consul of the Roman Republic in 436 BC.
Cornelius belonged to the influential Cornelia gens. Filiations indicate that he was the son of Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis, decemvir in 450 to 449 BC, and that he himself had at least one son, Publius Cornelius Maluginensis, consular tribune in 404 BC.

Career

Cornelius, it would seem, were not severely affected by the disgrace and exile of his father, the decemviri, in the aftermath of the fall of the second decemvirate in 449 BC. Proven by the fact that he succeeded with rising to the consulship.
Cornelius was elected consul in 436 BC together with Lucius Papirius Crassus. They lead raids against the Veii and the Falisci. During the consulship the tribune of the plebs, Spurius Maelius, proposed a bill targeting two senators, Gaius Servilius Ahala and Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus. The goal was to confiscate the property of Ahala, mark him as a caedes civis indemnati and to condemn Minucius for false accusation. Maelius, who was a son or close relative of Spurius Maelius who had been accused of attempted a uprising in 439 BC had been murdered by Ahala, and prior to this accused of the uprising by Minucius. The attempted bill by the tribune failed, and the two patricians were acquitted. The consuls were most likely involved in this event, but to what degree and in what form remains unknown.