Marcus Manlius Capitolinus

The depiction of Marcus Manlius on the Potsdam City Palace before it was erected in September 2018

Marcus Manlius Capitolinus († 384 BC ) was a Roman patrician from the gens Manlia . He was consul in 392 BC. Chr.

With his colleague Lucius Valerius Potitus he is said to have waged a successful war against the Aquer , for which he received an Ovatio and Valerius Potitus a triumph .

According to tradition, he saved the Capitol from a night attack by the Gauls . After the Romans in 387 BC BC suffered a devastating defeat on the Allia against the Gauls, the Gauls invaded Rome under the leadership of Brennus and set large parts of the city on fire. Many residents fled from the pillaging attackers. Some of them fled together with Manlius to the Capitol, the castle hill of Rome. According to legend, cackling geese betrayed the attackers creeping up the mountain.

In 385 BC Manlius was accused of seeking the title of king and was executed a year later for this.

Cicero (Phil. 2.87; 114; Rep. 2.49; Dom. 101) lists Marcus Capitolinus alongside Sp. Cassius and Sp. Maelius as examples of striving for the royal dignity ( adpetitio regni ), that with death and also the destruction of their houses (Cic., Dom. 101) has been punished.

Antoine de La Fosse wrote a tragedy called Manlius Capitolinus .

literature

Hans Georg Gundel : Manlius. I.19. MM Capitolinus (Vulso?). In: The Little Pauly . Volume 3: Iuppiter to Nasidienus. Druckmüller, Stuttgart 1969, p. 963.
Timothy P. Wiseman: Topography and Rhetoric. The Trial of Manlius. In: Historia . Vol. 28, No. 1, 1979, pp. 32-50, JSTOR 4435649 .
Mary K. Jaeger: Custodia Fidelis Memoriae. Livy'y Story of M. Manlius Capitolinus. In: Latomus . Vol. 52, No. 2, 1993, pp. 350-363, JSTOR 41541470 .
Christian Müller: Manlius [I 8]. M. Capitolinus, M. In: The New Pauly . Volume 7: Altertum, Lef - Men. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 823 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Titus Livius 5, 31: 2-3 and Diodorus 14, 106, 11; see also: 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, p. 92, (Reprinted unchanged 1968).
↑ Cf. Livy 5:47; 6.11; 6.14-20; on this TP Wiseman: Topography and Rhetoric. The Trial of Manlius. In: Historia. Vol. 28, No. 1, 1979, pp. 32-50; Paul M. Martin: L'idée de royauté à Rome. Volume 1: De la Rome royale au consensus républicain (= Miroir des civilizations antiques. 1). Adosa, Clermont-Ferrand 1982, ISBN 2-86639-020-2 , pp. 351-354.

personal data
SURNAME	Manlius Capitolinus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Capitolinus, Marcus Manlius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	roman consul 392
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	384 BC Chr.
Place of death	Rome, Italy

[1] Titus Livius 5, 31: 2-3 and Diodorus 14, 106, 11; see also: 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, p. 92, (Reprinted unchanged 1968).

[2] Cf. Livy 5:47; 6.11; 6.14-20; on this TP Wiseman: Topography and Rhetoric. The Trial of Manlius. In: Historia. Vol. 28, No. 1, 1979, pp. 32-50; Paul M. Martin: L'idée de royauté à Rome. Volume 1: De la Rome royale au consensus républicain (= Miroir des civilizations antiques. 1). Adosa, Clermont-Ferrand 1982, ISBN 2-86639-020-2 , pp. 351-354.