A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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where he performed numerous cures, and was at 1.. (CN.?) MANLIUS VULSO, consul B. c. 474
the same time careful to take advantage of every with L. Furius Medullinus Fusus, marched against
opportunityof converting his patients to Christianity. the Veientes, and concluded a forty years' truce
Here he suffered martyrdom, A. D. 67, at the com- with them without fighting, in consequence of
mand of C. Suetonius Paulinns, after suffering many which he obtained the honour of an ovation on his
cruel tortures, during which his faith and courage return to Rome.
had once well nigh failed. His memory is com- In the following year (B. C. 473) Manlius
memorated by the Romish Church on June 19, but Vulso and his colleague were accused by the trihis name does not appear ii the Greek calendar. bune Cn. Genucius, because they had not carried
(" Passio S. Ursicini," &c. in Muratori, Rer. Ital. into effect the agrarian law of Sp. Cassius ViscelliScript. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 560, &c.; Acta Sanct. June nus; but the accusation fell to the ground in con19, vol. iii. p. 809, &c.; Hieron. Rubei Ital. et sequence of the assassination of Genucius. (Dionys.
Raven. Hist.) [W. A. G.] ix. 36-38; Liv. ii. 54; comp. GENUCIUS, No. 2.)
URSUS. 1. A contemporary of Domitian, whom In Livy the praenomen of Manlius Vulso is Caius,
he dissuaded from killing his wife Domitia. This but most modern writers give him the praenomen
Ursus was no favourite with Domitian, and was of Aulus, and suppose him to be the same as the
nearly put to death by the tyrant; but on the in- decemvir [No. 2], who is called Aulus in the
tercession of Julia, the niece and mistress of Do- Capitoline Fasti. But since No. 4, who is repremitian, Ursus was not only pardoned, but raised sented as the son of No. 2, was consular tribune
to the consulship. His name, however, does not for the third time as late as B. c. 397, we can
occur in the Fasti. (Dion Cass. lxvii. 3, 4.) hardly suppose that Nos. 1 and 2 are the same
Statius addressed Ursus a poem of consolation on person, since in that case the son would have held
the death of a favourite slave (Silv. ii. 6), and in the consular tribunate 77 years after the consulship
the Preface to the second book of his Silvae, he of his father. We may therefore conclude that the
speaks of Ursus as " juvenis candidissimus et sine consul of B. C. 474 was the grandfather, and the
desidiae jactura doctissimus." Statius calls him decemvir the father of Nos. 3 and 4. If so the
Flavius Ursus. praenomen of the consul would be Cneius, as the
2. A contemporary of the younger Pliny, who decemvir is called in the Capitoline Fasti Cn.f.
has addressed several letters to him. (Ep. iv. 9, P. n.
v. 20, vi. 5;.13, viii. 9.) 2. A. MANLIUS CN. F. P. N. VULSO, probably
VULCA'NUS, the Roman god of fire, whose son of No. 2, was one of the ambassadors sent to
name seems to be connected with fulyere, fulgur, Athens in B. c. 454, for the purpose of gaining inand fulmen. His worship was of considerable formation about the laws of Solon and the other
political importance at Rome, for a temple is said Greek states, and in B. c. 451 he was a member
to have been erected to him close by the comitium of the first decemvirate. (Liv. iii. 31, 33; Dionys.
as early as the time of Romulus and Tatius, in x. 54.)
which the two kings used to meet and settle the 3. M. MANLIUS (A. F. CN. N.) Vulso, probably
affairs of the state, and near which the popular as- son of No. 2, was consular tribune B. C. 420. (Liv.
sembly was held. (Dionys. ii. 50, vi. 67; Plut. iv. 44.)
Quaest. Rom. 47.) 4. A. MANLITJS A. F. CN. N. VULSO CAPITatius is reported to have established the TOLINUS, son of No. 2, thrice consular tribune, in
worship of Vulcan along with that of Vesta, and B. C. 405, 402 and 397. (Fasti Capit.; Liv. iv.
Romulus to have dedicated to him a quadriga 61, v. 8, 16.) In B. c. 394 he was one of the
after his victory over the Fidenatans, and to have ambassadors sent to Delphi to present a golden
set up a statue of himself near the temple. (Dionys. crater as a present to Apollo, but was captured on
ii. 54; Plut. Rom. 24.) According to others his voyage thither by the Liparaean pirates. They
the temple was built by' Romulus himself, who were however released by Timasitheus, the chief
also planted near it the sacred lotus-tree which magistrate of the island, in that year, and allowed
still existed in the days of Pliny. (H. N. xvi. to prosecute their voyage. (Liv. v. 28.)
44; P. Victor, Reg. Urb. iv.) These circum- 5. L. MANLIUS A. F. P. N. VULSO LONGUS,
stances, and what is related of the lotus-tree, was consul B. C. 256 with M. Atilius Regulus,
shows that the temple of Vulcan, like that of and along with his colleague invaded Africa. Their
Vesta, was regarded as a central point of the victory over the Carthaginians by sea, and their
whole state, and hence it was perhaps not without successful campaign in Africa are fully related in
a meaning that subsequently the temple of Concord the life of Regulus [REGULUS, No. 3.] Vulso
was built within the same district. (Liv. ix. 46, returned to Italy at the fall of the year with half of
xl. 19, xxxvi. 46.) The most ancient festival in the army, and obtained the honour of a triumph.
honour of Vulcan seems to have been the Forna- (Polyb. i. 26-29; Zonar. viii. 12, 13; Oros. iv.
calia or Furnalia, he being the god of furnaces 8.) In B. C. 250 Vulso was consul a second time
(Isidor. xix. 6. 2; Fest. p. 88); but his great with C. Atilius Regulus Serranus, and with his
festival was called Vulcanalia, and was celebrated colleague commenced the siege of Lilybaeum. For
on the 23d of August. (Dict. of Ant. s. v.) details see REGULUS, NO. 4. (Polyb. i. 39, 41
The Roman poets transfer all the stories which are -48; Zonar. viii. 1 5; Oros. iv. 10.)
related of the Greek Hephaestus to their own 6. L. MANLIUS VULSO, one of the unsuccessful
Vulcan, the two divinities having in the course of patrician candidates for the consulship for s. c. 216,
time been completely identified. [L. S.] when C. Terentius Varro was elected. (Liv. xxii.
VULCA'TIUS. [VOLCATIUS.] 35.)
VULCA'TIUS GALLICA'NUS. [GALLI- 7. P. MANLIUS VULSO, praetor B. C. 210, reCANUS.] ceived Sardinia as his province. (Liv. xxvi. 23,
VULSO, the name of a distinguished patrician xxvii. 6, 7.)
family of the Manlia Gens. 8. CN. MANLIUS CN. F. L. N. VULSO, was CUl4N 3