Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus
Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus (mid 3rd century BC ) was consul of the Roman Republic and is known as the commander in the First Punic War .
As consul in 256 BC He and Marcus Atilius Regulus led the Roman fleet to victory in the battle of Cape Ecnomus , which they continued with the landing in Africa . Vulso left Regulus there and received a triumphal procession in Rome .
He became consul again in 250 BC. And blocked the Sicilian port city of Lilybaeum that year together with his counterpart Gaius Atilius Regulus , albeit without great success.
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Manlius 101. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen antiquity (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Col. 1225 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 208 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).
- ↑ Polybios I, 41, 1-6 and 42.7-48.11; Diodor XXIX 1, 1-4
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| SURNAME | Vulso Longus, Lucius Manlius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vulso, Lucius Manlius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |