Lucius Manlius belonged to one of the most distinguished patrician families of Rome, whose representatives regularly received a consulate , starting in 480 BC. er Manlius could have been Etruscans , and the cognomen Wolson ( Vulso ) or Wolson ( Volso ) could be associated with the name of the city of Volsinia ( Volsinii ) ^[1] .

According to the consular fasts , the father and grandfather of Lucius Manlius had prenomenes of Gnai and Lucius respectively ^[2] German antiquarian F. Müntzer suggested that Lucius the grandfather is Lucius Manlius Volson Long , consul 256 and 250 BC. e., commanded in Africa along with Marc Atiliu Regulus during the First Punic War . The sources mention his two sons, Lucius ( Praetor 218 years) and Publius (Praetor 210 years), but there could be a third, Gnei Sr., who died early (he may have died in one of the battles of the Second Punic War ). The brothers Lucius the grandson were Gnaeus , consul of 189 BC. e., and Aulus , consul 178 BC. er It remains unclear who was older — Lucius or Gnai ^[3] .

Biography

Lucius Manlius is mentioned in extant sources, beginning in 197 BC. Oe., when he held the post of praetor and governed the province of Sicily ^[4] . Mark Tullius Cicero, in one of his speeches against Verres, speaks of a praetor named Titus Manlius , who resettled colonists from several other Sicilian cities to Acragant ^[5] . Antiquaries suggest that this is precisely about Lucius: the speaker could simply confuse the prenomenes ^[6] .

In 191 BC. Oe., during the Antioch War , under Thermopylae, next to Marc Portia Caton (later Censorius ), according to Plutarch , someone named Lucius Manlius , "a man experienced in mountain walking" fought ^[7] . Friedrich Müntzer , a German antiquarian, states that it could have been Wulsson, but he considers the reliability of this identification not too high ^[6] .

Brother Lucius Gnaeus in 189 BC. er became a consul and went to Asia Minor, where he started a war with the Galatians . Lucius accompanied his brother as a legate ^[8] . He commanded one of the three army columns storming the strengthening of the Tolistobogis on Mount Olympus ^[9] ; in 188 BC er Gnaeus directed him at the head of the 4,000-strong detachment against the city of Oroanda , whose authorities were pulling back the indemnity ^{[10] [11]} . Having completed this assignment, Lucius Manlius immediately went, together with Quint Minucius Therm, to the king Antiochus III , in order to get him to ratify the Apamea Peace Treaty ^{[12] [13]} . After that, it is no longer mentioned in the sources ^[6] .

Notes

Sources and literature

Sources

1. Capitoline Fasts (Unsolved) . The site "History of Ancient Rome." The appeal date is August 27, 2018.
2. Titus Livius . History of Rome from the founding of the city. - M .: Science, 1994. - T. 3. - 576 p. - ISBN 5-02-008959-1 .
3. Plutarch . Comparative biographies. - SPb. : Science, 1994. - V. 3. - 672 p. - ISBN 5-306-00240-4 .
4. Polybius General history. - M. , 2004. - T. 2. - 768 p. - ISBN 5-17-024958-6 .
5. Mark Tullius Cicero . Speech - M .: Science, 1993. - ISBN 5-02-011169-4 .

Literature

1. Broughton R. Magistrates of the Roman Republic. - New York, 1951. - Vol. I. - P. 600.
2. Münzer F. Manlius // Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft . - 1928. - Bd. XIV, 1. - Kol. 1149-1,153.
3. Münzer F. Manlius 91 // Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft . - 1928. - Bd. XIV, 1. - Kol. 1215-1,222.
4. Münzer F. Manlius 93 // Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft . - 1928. - Bd. XIV, 1. - Kol. 1223.