Titus Manlius Torquatus (Consul 299 BC)

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Titus Manlius Torquatus (d. 299) was a Roman politician at the turn of the 4th to the 3rd century BC. Chr.

Manlius was the grandson of Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus , the most important representative of the gens Manlia in the 4th century BC. BC, who brought the cognomen Torquatus into the family. This left 340 BC Execute his son Titus for disobeying his consular orders. The son had attacked an enemy outpost against the orders of his father and general and defeated it in a duel. Despite the victory, the consul had his son executed in front of the army assembly, since the maintenance of military discipline and the welfare of the state had to be placed above personal feelings of fatherly love. This incident was seen as a model example of republican virtue and reason of state.

In 299 BC He was elected consul with Marcus Fulvius Paetinus . According to Livius , who refers to the historian Gaius Licinius Macer , among others , Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus had actually been elected, but he renounced the office because he would rather take over a municipal magistrate in a year without war .

Manlius received Etruria as the official area . But already at the beginning of the operations he fell from his horse during a maneuver with the cavalry and was injured so badly that he died three days later. The Etruscans now saw their will to resist strengthened, so that the Senate intended to appoint a dictator . This plan was abandoned, however, so that finally Marcus Valerius Corvus was elected suffect consul .

There are no known sons of Manlius. Two direct descendants played an important role in the First Punic War and in the decades after: Aulus Manlius Torquatus Atticus became consul in 244 and 241 BC. BC and censor 247 BC BC, Titus Manlius Torquatus was 235 and 224 BC. Consul, between 237 censor and died 202 BC. Chr.

literature

  • 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. 173, (Reprinted unchanged 1968).

Remarks

  1. ^ Livy , Roman History 10: 9, 9-11.
  2. ↑ Livy, Roman History 10,11,1-3.
personal data
SURNAME Manlius Torquatus, Titus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Torquatus, Titus Manlius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 299 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 299 BC Chr.