Manius Aulius was prefect of the Roman allies, or socii, in 208 BC, during the Second Punic War.
While on a reconnaissance mission a small force of 220 horsemen, under the consuls Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Titus Quinctius Crispinus, the troop was ambushed by a much larger Carthaginian force consisting of Numidian cavalry, and nearly everyone—including Aulius and both consuls—was killed.[1][2][3]
See also
References
- Livy, History of Rome, xxvii. 26, 27.
- "M'. Aulius", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 435.
- Broughton, vol. I, pp. 290, 291, 293.
Bibliography
- Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952–1986).