Marcus Manlius [SEP] position held
Marcus Manlius Capitolinus
Marcus Manlius Capitolinus (died 384 BC; sometimes spelled "Manilius") was consul of the Roman Republic in 392 BC. He was the brother of Aulus Manlius Capitolinus. The Manlii were a patrician "gens".
During the Gallic siege of Rome in 390 (or 387) BC, the account of which became partly mythologized, Marcus Manlius held out for months with a small garrison on the citadel "(arx)", while the rest of Rome was abandoned. When Gauls under the
Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus
Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus was the first of the patrician "gens Manlia" to obtain the consulship, which he held in 480 B.C., together with Marcus Fabius Vibulanus. His father's name was Publius.
That year, Rome was rent by internal dissension, which encouraged the Veientes to take the field in the hope of breaking Roman power. They were supported by troops from other Etruscan cities.
The consuls, mindful of the undisciplined conduct of the soldiers in the recent past, held their men back