Aulus Manlius Torquatus Atticus

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Aulus Manlius Torquatus Atticus was an in the 3rd century BC. Living politician of the Roman Republic . After his censorship in 247 BC He held the consulate twice (244 and 241 BC) .

Life

Aulus Manlius Torquatus Atticus came from the Roman patrician family of the Manlier . His father and grandfather carried the prenomen Titus according to the filiation information of the Fasti Capitolini and Triumphalfasten .

247 BC Manlius held the office of censor, with the two-time consul Aulus Atilius Caiatinus as a colleague. 244 BC BC he reached the highest office for the first time; his fellow consul was Gaius Sempronius Blaesus . He practiced the consulate a second time three years later, in 241 BC. BC, together with Quintus Lutatius Cerco . In that year Rome managed to successfully complete the First Punic War , which had lasted more than 20 years . One soon after, still in 241 BC. When the Falisker rebellion broke out , Manlius and his counterpart Lutatius were able to overthrow in just six days; the insurgents were severely punished. According to the Triumphal Acts, Manlius then held a triumph over the Faliskers.

On the occasion of the victorious ending of the First Punic War, Manlius is likely to have ordered the temporary closure of the Temple of Janus, which was carried out only this once during the entire Roman Republic and heralding a general era of peace . However, early Roman annalists wrongly referred this measure to the consul of 235 and 224 BC. Chr. , Attributed to Titus Manlius Torquatus .

Pliny the Elder mentions a consular Aulus Manlius Torquatus who died unexpectedly while eating. However, in the opinion of the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer , this consular is probably not to be identified with the Manlius discussed here, but with the consul of 164 BC. Chr.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini .
  2. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ; Velleius Paterculus 1, 14, 8; among others
  3. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ; Livy 30:44, 1; among others
  4. ↑ Zonaras 8:18 ; see. Polybios 1, 65, 2; Eutropius 2:28 ; Livy, periochae 19; among others
  5. ^ Marcus Terentius Varro , De lingua latina 5, 165; Livy 1:19, 3; Plutarch , Numa 20, 2; among others; on this Thomas A. Szlezák : Manlius [I 19]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 826 ..
  6. ↑ Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 7, 183.
  7. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Manlius 87). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Sp. 1212.
personal data
SURNAME Manlius torquatus atticus, aulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman censor 247 BC BC and consul in 244 and 241 BC. Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.