Titus Manlius Torquatus (dictator)

Titus Manlius Torquatus, son of Titus (or Titus Manlius T. f. Torquatus), was Roman Republican consul 235 BC and 224 BC, censor 231 BC, and dictator 208 BC.

The Manlii were one of the oldest and most distinguished patrician gentes in the Roman Republic. One Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus had been chosen consul in 480 BC, four years after the first Fabius had become consul. Prominent consuls in the family included the early 4th century consul Marcus Manlius T.f. Capitolinus (whose career was marked by his gens banning the use of the praenomen Marcus thereafter), and the 4th century consul Titus Manlius L.f. Imperiosus Torquatus. Titus was descended from this last consul, notable not only for his military successes but also for executing his own son for an impetuous breach of military discipline. It is not clear if the consul Aulus Manlius Titus f. Torquatus Atticus was Titus's elder brother.

In his first consulship in 235 BC, with Gaius Atilius A.f. Bulbus as his co-consul, he subjugated Sardinia, recently acquired from the Carthaginians. After this war, the temple of Janus was shut for the second time in Roman history (Livy 1. 9), meaning that Rome was at peace, not war. He was then elected censor with Quintus Fulvius Flaccus in 231 BC, and apparently did not complete the lustrum (ritual cleansing of the Roman state), because new censors were elected in 230 BC (Torquatus might have fallen out with his colleague and resigned, or the omens might have been considered inauspicious, forcing both censors to resign). In 224 BC, he was elected consul again, this time with his censorial colleague Flaccus.

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