Titus Manlius Valens

Titus Manlius Valens , also Gaius Manlius Valens, was a Roman senator of the 1st century AD. He was praetor , legate and finally, in 96, ordinary consul together with Gaius Antistius Vetus .

In 51/52 he was a legion of a legion in Britain (Edmund Groag suspects the Legio II Augusta , Anthony R. Birley the Legio XX Valeria Victrix ), which fought against the Silurians under his command . After a defeat against the Silurians, Valens was replaced by the legate Aulus Didius Gallus . Valens was later given command of the Legio I Italica , newly formed in AD 67, under Emperor Nero , which was moved from Galba to Lyon . When Vitellius was proclaimed emperor by the Germanic legions in April 69, Manlius Valens and his legion joined him. In the following years he seems to have lost his command.

For the year 96 Manlius Valens was appointed consul by the Emperor Domitian , although he was already 90 years old at the time. He died while he was still in consulate.

literature

• PIR ¹ M 123
• Edmund Groag : Manlius 88. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Col. 1212 f.
• Anthony R. Birley : The Fasti of Roman Britain . Oxford 1981, p. 230 (No. 52)
• PIR² M 163

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The praenomen Titus is attested in writing , see CIL 6, 17707 ; Rivista di archeologia cristiana and Enrico Josi: Note sul cimitero di Pretestato. III. La sistemazione del materiale epigrafico nel cimitero di Pretestato. IV. Le iscrizioni datate. In: Rivista di archeologia cristiana , Volume 12 (1935), pp. 227-245 (No. 19). The praenomen Gaius given by Cassius Dio is probably due to a confusion with his official colleague, but also appears in the Fasti Ostiensis CIL 14, 244 .
2. ↑ Tacitus , Annals 12.40.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Tacitus, Historien 1.64.
4. ^ Tacitus, Historien 1.59.
5. ^ Cassius Dio , Roman History 67,14,5.