Manius Tullius Longus

Manius Tullius Longus is a figure of the early Roman Republic, and is listed as BC, consul of 500, together with Servius Sulpicius Came Rinus Cornutus. He is the only representative of the patrician gens Tullia. His praenomen is also reproduced wrong with Marcus ( abbreviated M. ).

Dionysius of Halicarnassus reports that Tullius Longus drawn during his consulate against the city Fidenae in the war and was, a fatal accident near the end of his year in office at the Pompa, who opened the Ludi Romani. However, this is a later invention, which was particularly taken by his supposed descendants of Marcus Tullius Cicero - especially to illustrate his trial against Catiline in 63 BC In spite of this interpolation Friedrich Munzer assessed the existence of a historical consul in 500 BC with the Gentil name Tullius as historic.

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