Lucius Manlius Acidinus
Lucius Manlius Acidinus came from the Roman patrician family of the Manlii and managed from 206-199 BC as proconsul Spain.
Life
Lucius Manlius Acidinus, about whose origin nothing is known, was first mentioned 210 BC, when he served as Praetor urbanus. Since the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus seemed indispensable because of the war in Italy against Hannibal, Manlius was commissioned by the Senate, the second located in Sicily consul Marcus Valerius Laevinus letter should be instructed to come to the holding of elections to Rome. Beginning 208 BC Manlius was ordered to explore as an envoy conditions in Greece. It should also try to attend the Olympics. On this occasion he had made to inform those residents of Sicily and Tarentum, who had fled to the side of the Carthaginians because of the crossing of their towns that she could go back now, because their native areas now again were under Roman control. Back in Italy, Manlius defended the beginning of 207 BC with his troops the Umbrian passes against Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal. When the Romans Hasdrubal had decisively defeated at the Battle of Metaurus, the Carthaginian leader was even like, Manlius sent the first message of this great success to Rome.
After the expulsion of the Carthaginians from Spain, Manlius end 206 BC went, equipped with prokonsularischem Empire, the Iberian peninsula and served there along with Lucius Cornelius Lentulus as the successor of the victorious Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the 205 BC climb. consul. When the Iberian tribes and the Ilergetes Ausetaner, led by Indibilis and his brother Mandonius, 205 BC rebelled against the after the fall of the Carthaginian dominion newly established Roman hegemony, they suffered a decisive defeat against Manlius and Lentulus. The Roman generals attained by its victory, that there was no longer time to further revolts.
Manlius lingered with several times prolongiertem command as Lentulus still several years in his position in Spain. The Romans, after the Second Punic War successfully quit, it was decided to bring home one of the two Spanish proconsuls with part of the troops, while the other should form the rest of the army again. As the first Lentulus 200 BC went back to Italy and could hold 199 BC, the country's highest office. In the consulship of Lentulus to Manlius also went back to his home. However, he was in contrast to his former colleagues do not celebrate Ovatio, as a tribune, Publius Porcius Laeca be vetoed it, and besides, he was not elected consul. The reason for this reset against Lentulus sees the historian Friedrich Muenzer that Manlius was not supported as well as Lentulus from the politically dominant party of the Scipios.
An adopted son of Manlius, Lucius Manlius Acidinus Fulvianus, was 179 BC consul.