Manlius

Manlĭus, a,

• name of a Roman gens.
• • • 1 So esp. M. Manlius Capitolinus, who saved the Capitol in the Gallic war, but afterwards, suspected of aspiring to royal power, was thrown from the Tarpeian Rock, Liv. 5, 47, 4 sq.; 6, 11 sq.; Cic. Rep. 2, 27, 49; id. Phil. 1, 13, 32; 2, 44, 113 et saep.—
    • 2 L. Manlius Torquatus, a dictator, and his son, T. Manlius Torquatus, a consul, each of whom, for his severity, was surnamed Imperiosus, Liv. 7, 3 sq.; 8, 7, 1; Cic. Off. 3, 31, 112; cf. id. Fin. 2, 19, 60 et saep.—Hence,
  • A Man-lĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Manlius, Manlian: gens, Cic. Phil. 1, 13, 32; Liv. 6, 20, 15.—
  • B Manlĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Manlius, Manlian: supplicium, Liv. 6, 20.—Transf. (from L. Manlius Torquatus, v. supra), severe: vide, ne ista sint manliana vestra, aut majora etiam, si imperes quod facere non possim (preceded by ut nimis imperiosi philosophi sit), Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105; cf. Liv. 8, 7 fin.— Subst.: Manlĭānum, i, n., a villa belonging to Q. Cicero, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1.

Mānlius, a, um (2. mānus), Name einer röm. gens, aus der am bekanntesten M. Manlius Capitolinus, der das Kapitol vor den Galliern rettete, später aber, weil er sich verdächtig machte, nach der Königswürde zu streben, vom tarpejischen Felsen gestürzt wurde, Liv. 5, 47, 4 sqq.; 6, 11 sqq. Cic. Phil. 1, 32; 2, 113; de rep. 2, 49. – L. Manlius u. sein Sohn T. Manlius, die wegen ihrer Strenge den Beinamen Imperiosus bekamen, Liv. 7, 3 sq.; 8, 7, 1 sqq. Cic. de off. 3, 112. – Adi., manlisch, gens, Cic. – Dav. Mānliānus, a, um, manlianisch, des Manlius, turba, seditio, Liv.: mala (Äpfel), Plin.: sprichw., Manliana imperia, manlianische Machtsprüche (= grausame, harte Befehle), Liv. 4, 29, 6; 8, 27, 2. – subst., a) Mānliānum, ī, n., ein Landgut Ciceros, das Manlianum, Cic. – b) Mānliāna, ōrum, n., manlianische Machtsprüche, Manl. vestra, Cic. de fin. 2, 105 (s. vorh.).

Manlĭus, (9) ĭī, m. , nom dʼune famille rom. ; not^t M. Manlius Capitolinus et Manlius Torquatus, v. Capitolinus et Torquatus : Cic. Rep. 2, 49 ; Phil. 1, 32 ; 2, 113 || Cic. Off. 3, 112 ; Fin. 2, 60 || -lĭus, a, um, de Manlius : Cic. Phil. 1, 32 ; Liv. 6, 20, 15.

Ma'nlius

1. Cn. Manlius Cincinnatus, was consul in B. C. 480, with M. Fabius Vibulanus, and fell in battle against the Etruscans. (Liv. 2.43, 47; Dionys. A. R. 9.5, 6, 11, 12; Oros. 2.5.)

Ma'nlius

2. A. Manlius, a legate of C. Marius, in the war against Jugurtha in Africa, B. C. 107. He was sent alone with Sulla to Bocchus, to negotiate the surrender of Jugurtha. (Sal. Jug. 86, 90, 102.)

Ma'nlius

3. C. Manlius, the commander of Catiline's troops in Etruria, in B. C. 63, is more correctly named C. Mallius. [Mallius.]

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4. Manlius Lentinus, the legate of C. Pomptinius in Narbonese Gaul, in B. C. 6 1, took the city of Ventia, and defeated the barbarians. (D. C. 37.47.)

Ma'nlius

5. Cn. Manlius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 58, brought forward a law granting to the freedmen (libertini) the right of voting in all the tribes; but he was prevented from passing it by Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was then praetor (Ascon. in Cic. Mil. p. 46). Baiter, in his note on Asconius (l.c.), has shown that this Cn. Manlius is a different person from C. Manilius, who was tribune in B. C. 66. and who brought forward a similar law. [Manilius, No. 7.]

Ma'nlius Valens

[Valens.]

Manlius Vulso, Cn.

1. (Cn. ?) Manlius Vulso, consul B. C. 474 with L. Furius Medullinus Fusus, marched against the Veientes, and concluded a forty years' truce with them without fighting, in consequence of which he obtained the honour of an ovation on his return to Rome.

In the following year (B. C. 473) Manlius Vulso and his colleague were accused by the tribune Cn. Genucius, because they had not carried into effect the agrarian law of Sp. Cassius Viscellinus ; but the accusation fell to the ground in consequence of the assassination of Genucius. (Dionys. A. R. 9.36-38; Liv. 2.54; comp. [Genucius, No. 2.]) In Livy the praenomen of Manlius Vulso is Caius, but most modern writers give him the praenomen of Aulus, and suppose him to be the same as the decemvir [No. 2], who is called Aulus in the Capitoline Fasti. But since No. 4, who is represented as the son of No. 2, was consular tribune for the third time as late as B. C. 397, we can hardly suppose that Nos. 1 and 2 are the same person, since in that case the son would have held the consular tribunate 77 years after the consulship of his father. We may therefore conclude that the consul of B. C. 474 was the grandfather, and the decemvir the father of Nos. 3 and 4. If so the praenomen of the consul would be Cneius, as the decemvir is called in the Capitoline Fasti Cn. f. P. n.

Mānlius a,

• a gentile name.

Manlius

Marcus. A Roman who was consul in B.C. 392, took refuge in the Capitol when Rome was taken by the Gauls in 388 (Mommsen). One night, when the Gauls endeavored to ascend the Capitol, Manlius was roused from his sleep by the cackling of the geese; collecting hastily a body of men, he succeeded in driving back the enemy, who had just reached the summit of the hill. From this heroic deed he is said to have received the surname of Capitolinus. In 385 he defended the cause of the plebeians, who were suffering severely from the harsh and cruel treatment of their patrician creditors. In the following year he was charged with high treason by the patricians; and being condemned to death by the people, he was hurled down the Tarpeian Rock by the tribunes. The members of the Manlia gens accordingly resolved that none of them should ever bear in future the praenomen of Marcus. See Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, i. pp. 380, 381, 429 (Amer. ed. 1888).