Lucius Manlius Torquatus (consul 65 BC)

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Lucius Manlius Torquatus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 65 BC, elected after the condemnation of Publius Cornelius Sulla and Publius Autronius Paetus.

Biography

Torquatus belonged to the

Battle of the Colline Gate.[2] He was elected Praetor by 68 BC, and was possibly a legate under Pompey before taking up his new post of propraetor of the Roman province of Asia in 67 BC.[3]

In 66 BC, Torquatus stood for election as Roman consul, but was defeated by Publius Cornelius Sulla and Publius Autronius Paetus. However, Torquatus and Lucius Aurelius Cotta accused the consul designates for the following year of bribery in connection with the elections; they were condemned under the Lex Acilia Calpurnia, and Cotta and Torquatus elected in their places.[4] This, allegedly, led to the so-called First Catilinian Conspiracy where Catiline, together with Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, Autronius, and Sulla, conspired to murder the new consuls on 1 January 65 BC, when they were due to enter office. Autronius and Sulla were to install themselves as consuls, while Piso was to take possession of the provinces of Hispania.[5] The plot failed when the Senate became suspicious and issued bodyguards to the incoming consuls.[6] However, during Catiline's trial for corruption when he was governor of Africa in 65 BC, he was supported by Torquatus, and an investigation undertaken by the consul into the circumstances of the aborted plot was inconclusive.[7]

In 64 BC, Torquatus obtained

Second Catilinarian conspiracy late that year, and he also supported Cicero when Cicero was banished in 58 BC.[10]

Torquatus was married to a woman from Asculum.

Caesar's Civil War. He may also have had a daughter who married Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Broughton, p. 60
  2. ^ Broughton, p. 69
  3. ^ Broughton, pgs. 145 & 148
  4. ^ Holmes, p. 234; Anthon & Smith, p. 903; Broughton, p. 156
  5. ^ Broughton, p. 156; Holmes, p. 234
  6. ^ Holmes, p. 234
  7. ^ Holmes, p. 236; Patrick McGushin, Bellum Catilinae: a commentary, Volumes 45-47, 1977, p. 129
  8. ^ Broughton, p. 163; Anthon & Smith, p. 903
  9. ^ Broughton, p. 168
  10. ^ Anthon & Smith, p. 903
  11. ^ Syme, p. 357
  12. ISBN 9780198147312
    .

Sources

  • T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol II (1952).
  • Holmes, T. Rice, The Roman Republic and the Founder of the Empire, Vol. I (1923)
  • Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939.
  • Anthon, Charles & Smith, William, A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography (1860).
Political offices
Preceded by
Manius Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Volcatius Tullus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Aurelius Cotta

65 BC 		Succeeded by
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