person
Titus Manlius Torquatus
Consul 235 and 224 BC, a man of old-fashioned severity, whose speech carried the senate against ransoming the Cannae captives.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 22 §60 Titus Manlius Torquatus
A senator of old-fashioned severity, whose speech carried the senate against ransoming the captives.
- The History of Rome, Book 23 §22 Titus Manlius above all
Titus Manlius Torquatus, consul (235, 224 BC) and censor who had subdued Sardinia; stern upholder of patrician dignity, here invoking his ancestor's threat against Latins in the senate.
- The History of Rome, Book 27 §11 Titus Manlius Torquatus
Consul 235/224, censor 231; here a candidate for leader of the senate and later dictator (ch. 32).