Publius Manlius Capitolinus | |
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| Dictator of the Roman Republic | |
| In office 368 BC | |
| Preceded by | Marcus Furius Camillus |
| Succeeded by | Marcus Furius Camillus |
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Publius Manlius Capitolinus was a Roman statesman who served as Dictator in 368 BC. [1]
A member of the patrician gens Manlia , Capitolinus was the brother of Marcus Manlius Capitolinus, consul in 392 BC.
In 368 BC, Capitolinus succeeded Marcus Furius Camillus as Dictator, who was forced to step down by the tribunes. [2] Capitolinus successfully brokered a settlement between the plebeians and patricians. [3] He appointed Gaius Licinius Stolo as Magister Equitum , the first plebeian to hold the office.
Marcus Furius Camillus was a Roman soldier and statesman of patrician descent. According to Livy and Plutarch, Camillus triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of Rome.
Lucius QuinctiusCincinnatus was a Roman patrician, statesman, and military leader of the early Roman Republic who became a legendary figure of Roman virtue—particularly civic virtue—by the time of the Empire.
In ancient Rome, a gens, plural gentes, was a family consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps. The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italia during the period of the Roman Republic. Much of individuals' social standing depended on the gens to which they belonged. Certain gentes were classified as patrician, others as plebeian; some had both patrician and plebeian branches. The importance of membership in a gens declined considerably in imperial times, although the gentilicium continued to be used and defined the origins and dynasties of Roman emperors.
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Marcus Manlius Capitolinus was consul of the Roman Republic in 392 BC. He was the brother of Aulus Manlius Capitolinus. The Manlii were a patrician gens.
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| Preceded by Marcus Furius Camillus | Dictator of the Roman Republic 368 BC | Succeeded by Marcus Furius Camillus |