Gnaeus Manlius Vulso (consul 474 BC)

Aulus Manlius Vulso came from the ancient Roman patrician family of the Manlii and should be 474 BC have been consul and 451 BC decemvir legibus scribundis. He was, according to the legendary tradition of the second representative of his race, who reached the consulate.

Life

Although the historian Livy and Diodorus for the consul Manlius of the year 474 BC, specify each of Aulus different name, he is equated in research mostly with the decemvir Manlius of the year 451 BC, has been handed down unanimously in favor of the, that he led the praenomen Aulus. The Fasti Capitolini the details are completely intact for this decemvir, after which his father's praenomen Gnaeus and his grandfather the praenomen Publius led. He could, therefore, as the historian Friedrich Munzer thinks of the ancient Fast editors as either a son or a younger brother of the First Consul of the gene Manlia, Gnaeus Manlius ( Cincinnatus? ) (Consul 480 BC) have been considered.

The Consulate of the year 474 BC practiced Vulso from Lucius Furius together with Medullinus. This year Vulso to be broken with the Roman army in a campaign against the Etruscan Veienter do away with these but did not fight, but a 40-year truce. According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, he should have also received a Ovatio granted, which is confirmed by a fragment of the Triumphalakten. The general for the Vita of Vulso quite unanimous tradition also reported that Gnaeus Genucius have prosecuted as tribune of the year 473 BC Vulso court and its co-consul Furius, because they had not carried out opposition the agrarian law of Cassius Spurius Vecellinus. On the day of trial Genucius but had been found murdered in his home, which is why the action was defeated. 454 BC was allegedly Vulso together with Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis and Publius Sulpicius or Servius Came Rinus cornutus (possibly identical with the consul of 461 BC ) to Athens to write off let the laws of the wise statesman Solon and to make with the facilities and customs of the other Greek states familiar. Thus, these three embassy should prepare for the codification of a general land law. This was also the reason that Vulso and his two companions were chosen BC to 451 members of the Decemviri legibus scribundis. So you belonged to the first college of its kind.