Lucius Manlius Vulso (Praetor 197 BC)

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Lucius Manlius Vulso came from the ancient Roman patrician family of the Manlier and was at the beginning of the 2nd century BC. A politician of the Roman Republic .

Life

Lucius Manlius Vulso was the brother of the consul from 189 BC. BC, Gnaeus Manlius Vulso . This officiated 197 BC. BC as a curular aedile , while Lucius Manlius Vulso already held the position of praetor in the same year , with Sicily as a province. The Roman orator and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero mentions a praetor Titus Manlius , who led colonists from some Sicilian cities to the city of Agrigentum on the same island . Although this praetor appears in Cicero with the first name Titus , he should be identical to the Lucius Manlius Vulso treated here.

In later years, Lucius Manlius Vulso was overtaken on the career ladder by his brother Gnaeus. The latter reached 189 BC. The consulate and led a raid in Asia Minor , which Lucius Manlius Vulso took part in in the position of legate . When the consul invaded the territory of the Galatians and intended to storm a firm position of the Tolistoagians on the steep mountain of Olympos, Lucius Manlius Vulso commanded one of the three Roman divisions. The battle for the Olympus was won by the Romans, as their entire campaign turned out to be successful.

When Gnaeus Manlius Vulso met himself in 188 BC the next year. When he was in the position of proconsul in Perge , he gave his brother Lucius the task of collecting that part of the contributions that the city of Oroanda had not yet paid. Lucius was given 4000 soldiers for this purpose. Gnaeus Manlius Vulso then sent his brother Lucius after his return from Oroanda together with the consular Quintus Minucius Thermus , a member of a committee of ten of the Roman Senate, to see King Antiochus III. because the latter was supposed to take the oath before them on the peace treaty between Rome and the Seleucid Empire, an oath that the proconsul had already taken before.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Polybios 21.44.7 and 21.46.1; Livy 38.20.7 and 38.37.11.
  2. ↑ Livy 32.27.7 and 32.28.2.
  3. ↑ Cicero, in Verrem actio 2,123; on this Friedrich Münzer : Manlius 93). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Col. 1223.
  4. ↑ Livy 38,20,7; 38,22,1; 38.23.3.
  5. ↑ Polybios 21,44,7; Livy 38,37,11.
  6. ↑ Polybios 21: 46,1 f .; Livy 38.39.1.
personal data
SURNAME Manlius Vulso, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vulso, Lucius Manlius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman praetor 197 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.