Titus Menenius Lanatus (consul 452 BC)

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Titus Menenius Lanatus
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Office Consul (452 BC)
Children Agrippa Menenius Lanatus

Titus Menenius Lanatus (fl. c. 452 BC) was a Roman senator during the 5th century BC. He served as consul in 452 BC.

Consulship

In 452 BC, he was consul with Publius Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus. [1] [2] During their consulship, the delegates left to study Greek law in Athens. After returning to Rome, the tribunes of the plebs called together officials to create a commission to write the law down. Publius Sestius supported this proposition, contrary to Titus Menenius, who pondered the question before falling ill; then he was rendered inactive until the end of his term as consul. [2] Publius Sestius refused to take the initiative on his own in creating the commission. So he deferred the decision to the following year. [3]

Titus Menenius was the father of Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, consul in 439 BC.

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References

  1. Livy, Ab urbe condita, III. 32
  2. 1 2 Broughton, T. Robert S. (1951), "The Magistrates of the Roman Republic", Philological Monographs, number XV, volume I, New York: The American Philological Association, vol. I, 509 B.C. - 100 B.C., p. 44
  3. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, X. 54
Political offices
Preceded by Roman consul
452 BC
with P. Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus
Succeeded by