Aulus Manlius Vulso (Consul 178 BC)

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Aulus Manlius Vulso came from the ancient Roman patrician family of the Manlier and was 178 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

According to the Fasti Capitolini , Aulus Manlius Vulso was the son of a Gnaeus Manlius and grandson of a Lucius Manlius . This information shows, among other things, that he was the younger brother of the consul from 189 BC. BC, Gnaeus Manlius Vulso , was.

194-192 BC As Triumvir coloniae deducendae , Vulso worked together with the tribune of the people Quintus Aelius Tubero and the Praetorian Lucius Apustius Fullo with the establishment of Copia, a Roman colony under Latin law, in the area of ​​the southern Italian city of Thurioi , which was newly founded. After the praetor Lucius Baebius Dives in 189 BC. During his tenure in office as a result of a wound received during an attack by the Ligurians , he was probably replaced by Vulso, who was elected suffect praetor.

It was not until ten years later that Vulso was mentioned again in the sources when he was among the consul of 179 BC. BC, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus , held Comitia together with Marcus Iunius Brutus as consul for 178 BC. Was chosen. With that he had reached the climax of his political career. Instead of going to his province of Gaul , he went on a campaign in the Histrer area on the northern Adriatic without first consulting the Senate. The account of the war by the Roman historian Titus Livius is likely - at least indirectly - to be traced back to Vulso's official report, but it also contains bits and pieces of a version hostile to the consul.

Due to an unexpected attack by the Histrer at dawn, Vulso suffered a heavy defeat, lost his camp to the enemy and fled with his troops. When the news of the defeat reached Rome, extensive troop levies were ordered. The other consul, Marcus Iunius Brutus, was supposed to horror Vulso. Since the latter had meanwhile recaptured his camp from the Histrers, Brutus was able to leave after eleven days. In spite of this, the two tribunes of the people Licinius Nerva and Gaius Papirius attacked Turdus Vulso while he was away from the capital, because he had started the Histrian war on his own initiative. They applied to revoke the extended command that had already been granted to him. This motion was eventually brought down by a third tribune, Quintus Aelius.

Vulso and Brutus spent the winter with their combined forces in Aquileia . Beginning of 177 BC They started a new offensive against the Histrer and besieged the city of Nesactium , where Epulo , the king of the Histrer, had withdrawn. Then the new consul Gaius Claudius Pulcher appeared with fresh troops, replaced Vulso and Brutus as generals and was able to defeat the Histrer.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini: Aulus Manlius Cn. f. L. n. Vulso .
  2. ↑ Livy 34, 53, 2 and 35, 9, 7.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Manlius 90). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Col. 1214 f.
  4. ↑ Livy 40, 59, 4.
  5. ↑ Livius 41, 1, 1ff.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Münzer: Manlius 90). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Sp. 1215.
  7. ^ Livy 41, 1, 1--5, 12.
  8. ↑ Livy 41, 6, 1-3.
  9. ↑ Livy 41:10, 1-11, 2.
personal data
SURNAME Manlius Vulso, Aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vulso, Aulus Manlius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 178 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.