Lucius Manlius Torquatus

Lucius Manlius Torquatus (* around 108 BC ; † 47 BC ) was a Roman politician .

He is likely to be identical to the Proquaestor Lucius Manlius, who lived from 84 to 81 BC. Under Sulla , first in the east, then in the civil war in Italy . After the praetur (probably 68 BC) he was probably proconsul of the province of Asia .

In 65 BC Manlius held the consulate and was then until the autumn of 63 BC. BC Proconsul of Macedonia . He received the title imperator from the Senate . After his return he supported the consul Marcus Tullius Cicero in suppressing the Catilinarian conspiracy . As a school friend of Cicero, he sat down in 57 BC. For his recall from exile.

In the civil war between Caesar and Pompey , Manlius stood on the side of the Pompeians and was defeated in 48 BC. Caesar captured and executed a year later.

literature

• Yasmina Benferhat: Manlius Torquatus (L.). In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 4. CNRS Éditions, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-271-06386-8 , pp. 255-256
• T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 2: 99 BC - 31 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 2, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1952, pp. 60, 63, 69, 137-138, 145, 148, 156, 168.
• Catherine J. Castner: Prosopography of Roman Epicureans from the Second Century BC to the Second Century AD (= Studies on Classical Philology. 34). 2nd, unchanged edition. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991, ISBN 3-8204-9933-4 , pp. 40-42.