Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

MANL1151 A. Manlius (90) Cn. f. L. n. Vulso

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 221?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin no. 122.

Relationships

grandson of
L. Manlius (101) A. f. P. n. Vulso Longus (cos. 256) (Badian 1990)
son of
? L. Manlius (92) (Vulso) (pr. 218 or 219) (DPRR Team)
brother of
? -. Manlius (43, 26?) L. f. Acidinus (tr. mil. 171) (DPRR Team)
? L. Manlius (26, cf. 43) (Acidinus)? (q. 168) (DPRR Team)
? Cn. Manlius (91) Cn. f. L. n. Vulso (cos. 189) (DPRR Team)
? L. Manlius (93) Vulso (pr. 197) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 194 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The Measures authorizing nos. c. and d. were passed at the end of 194, so Tubero was a Tr. Pl. of 193. The elections to the commissions were held by Domitius the Pr. Urb. of 194 (Liv. 34.53.2). Note that Tubero was elected to a commission that he created. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Granted imperium for three years in order to colonize the Ager Thurinus (Liv. 34.53.1-2; cf. 35.9.7-8). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 193 (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 193 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • To Castrum Frentinum under Tubero's law (Liv. 35.9.7-8; see 194, no. c.). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 192 (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor Suffectus? 189 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • As Consul after the passage of the Lex Villia in 180, he must have been Praetor before 178. The year 189 provides the only known vacancy. (Broughton MRR I)
    • See MRR 1.395 and 397, note 1. The praetorship of Manlius Vulso and of all the praetors not otherwise attested between the passage of the Lex Villia Annalis in 180 and the legislation of Sulla is inferred from their attainment of the consulship. A. Afzelius (C & M 8, 1946, 261-278) and F. de Martino (Storia d. cost. Rom. 2.362ff.) held that this Lex, as Livy remark; (40.44.1), merely set an age limit for each magistracy, but did not prescribe an order or a biennium between the curule ones. This view, is correct, weakens the presumption that all who held the consulship between 180 and 81 had held the praetorship, unless specifically exempted by special legislation, like Scipio Aemilianus (335), Cos. 147 even though, as Afzelius agrees, Roman custom and legally established age limits would go far toward creating the situation I have assumed. He uses the case of A. Manlius Vulso, whose name does not appear on the list of praetors, to support his view. Note however that in 189 the political conditions when a praetor died in office and a brother and a close family friend were consuls might well have aided an election as suffect praetor then. Moreover, if the notice in Plutarch that all twelve of the rivals of Aemilius Paullus for the curule aedileship of 193 attained higher office later (Aem. Paull. 3.1) is not a gross exaggeration, Manlius, who must have been one of them in a patrician year, would have been ready for a praetorship in 189. The abortive candidacy of Iulius Caesar Strabo for the consulship of 87 is termed illegal by Asconius (and by Cicero) because he had not been praetor (see MRR 2.41). Astin’s review of the question (Lex Annalis before Sulla) shows that the biennium between curule magistracies seems mandatory, and that the praetorship was a necessary qualification for the consulship. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor? c. 185 (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • p. 732, footnote 69. Contra Broughton. For detailed discussion see pp. 667-8. (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 178 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 189, Praetors. The Lex Villia Annalis of 180 required the Consul to be an ex-Praetor, but no text mentions the praetorship of Manlius. He may have been elected to the place of L. Baebius Dives who died in office in 189. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 40.59.4; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 48f., 122, 456f. (reading [M. I] unius, etc.); Obseq. 8; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod. Manlius was assigned the province of Gaul, whence he invaded Istria, was ousted from his camp by the Istri, but later recovered it and defeated them (Liv. 41.1-5, 6.1-3, and 7.4-10; cf. Flor. 1.26, who names Cn. Manlius and Ap. Pulcher). Brutus was assigned to Liguria but after the defeat in Istria joined his collegue at Aquileia (Liv. 41.5.5 and 9-12), and returned to Rome to hold the elections (41.7.4-10). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Additions and Corrections. On A. Manlius Vulso, and on thevarious Praetors between the Lex Villia Annalis of 180 BC and the Dictatorship of Sulla whose praetorship is inferred from their attainment of the consulship: In Classica et Mediaevalia 8 (1946) 261-278 A. Afzelius presents the view that the Lex Villia Annalis of 180 merely set a minimum age limit for the attainment of the various magistracies, as Livy says, but did not also prescribe an order of magistracies or a biennium between the curule ones. This view, which may be correct, makes less certain the rpeseumption that all those who attained the consulship between 180 and 81 had held the praetorship, but, as Professor Afzelius himself agrees, the effect of Roman custom and of the legally established age limits would create a situation not greatly different form the one I have presented above. He uses the case of A. Manlius Vulso, cos. 178, whose name does not appear in the lists of praetors, to support his contention. Yet it should be noted that the political conditions of 189, when a brother and a close family friend held the consulship, would have been extremely favourable to his election as Praetor Suffectus then (see Scullard, Roman Politics 184; and above, 189 Praetors). Moreover, if the notice in Plutarch (Aem. Paul. 3.1) that all twelve of the rivals of Paullus for the curule aedileship of 193, a patrician year, later attained the consulship is not a gross exaggeration, Manlius, who must have been one of them, would therefore have been ready for the praetorship of 189. Apart from Manlius, we have no examples that are not in some way or other termed illegal: Scipio Aemilianus, cos. 147, who was below the legal age (he was actually a candidate for the aedileship of 148), and Julius Caesar Strabo in 88, whose abortive candidacy is termed illegal by Asconius (and implied to be so by Cicero) because he had omitted the praetorship. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 177 Gallia, Istria (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Their command prorogued, they received the submission of most of the Istri (Liv. 41.10.1-5), but after a quarrel the Consul Claudius took over their command (Liv. 41.10.1-5, and 11.1). (Broughton MRR I)

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