Titus Manlius Torquatus (Consul 165 BC)

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Titus Manlius Torquatus came from the Roman patrician family of the Manlier and was 165 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Titus Manlius Torquatus had, according to the filiation information of Fasti Capitolini, a grandfather of the same name, who probably worked with the consul from 235 and 224 BC. Chr. To be identified.

Since 170 BC Torquatus exercised the sacred office of a pontiff . It was probably around 170 BC. BC also praetor . He was promoted to consulate in 165 BC. When he exercised this highest office of state with Gnaeus Octavius as an official colleague. Presumably he then helped Aulus Manlius Torquatus , who must have been his younger brother, to the consulate of the following year 164 BC. Chr.

As Ptolemy VIII , the younger brother of the Egyptian king Ptolemy VI. , 162 BC BC in Rome to support his request to add Cyprus to his domain, the Senate commissioned Torquatus, Gnaeus Cornelius Merula and other legates to reconcile the divided Ptolemaic brothers and to bring Ptolemy VIII bloodlessly to rule over Cyprus. Ptolemy VIII set off with the Roman ambassadors on the journey, but had to dismiss mercenaries recruited on the way in Greece and, together with Merula, wait for the outcome of the negotiations, which Torquatus meanwhile in Alexandria with Ptolemy VI. led. However, these conversations were fruitless. After her return to Rome in 161 BC Therefore, Torquatus and Merula support the envoys Ptolemy VIII, so that the alliance of Rome with the Egyptian king was canceled.

Torquatus had his son adopted by the plebeian named Decimus Junius Silanus, who lived in 146 BC. BC the commission for the translation of a textbook written by the Carthaginian Mago on agriculture. The son of Torquatus was also named Decimus Junius Silanus after his adoption and was 141 BC. BC Praetor of the Province of Macedonia . 140 BC He was accused of having carried out dubious financial transactions during his tenure as praetor. Torquatus, who was a respected legal scholar, was allowed to investigate the charges against his son in his own home with the approval of the Senate. After hearing both sides, after carefully examining their statements, he came to the conclusion that his son had committed abuse of office as praetor and repudiated him as a punishment. Silanus was deeply affected by his father's guilty verdict and committed suicide. Torquatus, according to an old custom, had practiced strict justice in his family and did not even go to the funeral of his son, but acted as a legal advisor as usual.

After 140 BC Torquatus is no longer mentioned; the year of his death is unknown.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 165 BC. Chr .: Titus Manlius A. f. T. n. Torquatus .
  2. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Manlius 83). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, column 1209.
  3. ↑ Livy 43:11, 13.
  4. ↑ Fasti Capitolini; Cicero , De finibus 1,24 ; among others
  5. ↑ Polybios 31, 10 and 31, 17-20; to Günther Hölbl : History of the Ptolemaic Empire . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-534-10422-6 , pp. 161-163 . ; Werner Huss : Egypt in the Hellenistic Period 332–30 BC Chr . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 , p. 571 f .
  6. ↑ Cicero, De finibus 1, 24; Livy, periochae 54 and periochae from Oxyrhynchos 54; Valerius Maximus 5, 8, 3.
personal data
SURNAME Manlius Torquatus, Titus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 165 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.