Titus Menenius Lanatus (consul 452 BC)

Titus Menenius Lanatus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC, consul in 452 BC.

Titus Menenius Lanatus
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office
1 August 452 BC [1]  31 July 451 BC
Preceded bySpurius Furius Medullinus Fusus (consul 464 BC),Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus
Succeeded byAppius Claudius Crassus,Titus Genucius Augurinus
Personal details
BornUnknown
Ancient Rome
DiedUnknown
Ancient Rome

Consulship

In 452 BC, he was consul with Publius Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus.[2][3] During their consulship, the delegates left to study Greek law in Athens. After returning to Rome, the tribunes of the plebs called together officials to create a commission to write the law down. Publius Sestius supported this proposition, contrary Titus Menenius, who pondered the question before falling ill - then was rendered inactive until the end of his term as consul.[3] Publius Sestius refused to take sole initiative in creating the commission, and so deferred the decision to the following year.[4]

References

  1. Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
  2. Livy, Ab urbe condita, III. 32
  3. Broughton 1951, p. 44.
  4. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, X. 54
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