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Rh CAPITOLINUS. 31, 47, vi, 5, 11, 14— 20; Cic. de Re Paid. ii. 27, PhUipp. i. 13, ii. 44 ; Cell. xvii. 21 ; Dion Cass. Fray. 31, p. 15, ed. Reimar, xlv. 32 ; Aurel. Vict. de Vir. III. 24.) 5. A. Manlius a. f. a. n. Capitolinus, four times consular tribune, in B. c. 389, 38o, 383, and 370. In his first tribuneship Rome was attacked by several enemies at once, and A. Manilas ob- tained the command of one of the three armies then raised for guarding the city. In the second tribuneship he persuaded the senate to appoint a dictator to carry on the war against the Volscians, Latins, and Heniicans. (Liv. vi. 1, 11, 21, 36.) 6. C. Manlius Capitolinus, consular tribune in B. c 385. (Liv. vi. 30.) 7. P. Manlius A. f. A. n. Capitolinus, con- sular tribune in b. c. 379. He was created dic- tator in B. c. 368, as the successor of M. Furius Camillus, for the purpose of restoring peace be- tween the two orders, and during his government the Licinian laws were carried. In the year fol- lowing he was elected consular tribune a second time. (Liv. vi. 30, 38, &c. ; Pint. Camill. 39, 42.) 8. L. Manlius A. f. A. n. Capitolinus Im- PERiosus, was dictator in B. c. 363 clavi jigendi catua. (Liv. vii. 3.) 9. Cn. Manlius L. f. A. n. Capitolinus Im- PERiosus, was consul in B. c. 359 with M. Popil- lius Laenas, and carried on a war with the Tibur- tines. Two years later, B. c. 357, he was again called to the consulship, during which he had to carry on a war against the faliscans and Tarqui- nienses. In B. c. 351 he was censor with C. Marcius Rutilus, and during the war with the Auruncans in 345, he was magister equitura to the dictator L. Furius Camillus. (Liv, vii. 12, 16, 22, 28.) [L. S.] CAPITOLI'NUS, PETI'LLIUS, was accord- ing to the Scholiast on Horace (^Sat. i. 4. 94) en- trusted with the care of the temple of Jupiter on the Capitol, and was accused of having stolen the crown of Jupiter, but was acquitted by the judges in consequence of his being a friend of Augustus. The Scholiast states that Petillius received the surname of Capitolinus from his being placed over the Capitol ; but whether this be so, or whether it was a regular family-name of the gens, so much is certain, that the annexed coin of the gens refers to the connexion of one of the Petillii with the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, for the obverse represents the hejid of Jupiter, and the reverse the temple. CAPITOUNUS. 605 CAPITOLI'NUS, QUI'NCTIUS. 1. T. QuiNCTXUS Capitolinus Barbatus, was consul in b. c. 471 with App. Claudius Sabinus Regil- lensis. During the disputes about the Publilian law, ho opposed his colleague and conciliated the plebeians, and the law was carried. He then con- ducted the war agjiinst the Aequians, and his great popularity with the soldiers enabled him to conquer the enemy, who did not venture to meet the Romans, but allowed them to ravage the coun- trj'. The immense booty acquired in this campaign was all distributed among the soldiers. He ob- tained the consulship a second time in B. c. 468, during which year he again carried on a war against the Volscians and Aequians, and by his presence of raind saved the Roman camp, which was attacked by the enemy during the night. After this war he was honoured with a triumph. In «. c. 365 he was made consul a third time. The war against the Aequians and Volscians was still continued, and Capitolinus, who was stationed on mount Algidus and there heard of the ravaging inroads of the Aequians in the Roman territory, returned to Rome and delivered his fellow-citizens from their terror. The senate proclaimed a justitium, and the consul again marched out to protect the Roman frontier ; but as he did not meet with the enemy, who had in the meantime been defeated by his colleague Q. Fabius, Capitolinus returned to Rome four days after he had left it. The consulship was given him for the fourth time in B. c. 446, together with Agrippa Furius. During the quarrels which were then going on at Rome between the patri- cians and plebeians, the Aequians and Volscians again took up arms, began ravaging Latiuni, and advanced up to the very walls of the city. The people of Rome were too distracted among them- selves to take the field against the enemy, but Capitolinus succeeded in allaying the discontent of the plebs, and in rousing the nation to defend itself with all energy. The supreme command of the Roman army was given him with the consent of his colleague, and he routed the enemy in a fierce contest. In B. c. 443 he obtained his fifth consulship. In this year the censorship was in- stituted at Rome as an oflice distinct from the con- sulship. While his colleague M. Geganius Mace- rinus was engaged in a war against Ardea, Capito- linus gained equal laurels at home by acting as mediator between the patricians and plebeians, with both of whom he had acquired the highest esteem. The extraordinary wisdom and modera- tion he had shewn on all occasions, obtained for him the sixth consulship in b. c. 439, together with Agrippa Menenius. Rome was at that time visited by a famine, and when he pointed out the necessity of appointing a dictator under the cir- cumstances, the dignity was offered him, but he declined it on account of his advanced age, recom- mending L. Quinctius Cincinnatus, who was ac- cordingly raised to that dignity. In B. c. 437, he accompanied the dictator Mam. Aemilius Mamcr- cinus as legate in his campaign against Fidenac, and a few years later he came forward as a sup- pliant for the son of the dictator Cincinnatus, who was tried before the comitia, and the prayer of the aged Quinctius procured his acquittal. After this time we hear no more of him. (Liv. ii, 6Q — 60, 64, iii. 2, &c., 66, &c„ iv. 8, 1 0, 1 3, 1 7, 4 1 ; Dionys. ix. 43, &c., 57, 61, xi. 63 ; Zonar. vii. 19.) 2. T. Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, a son of No. 1, was consul in B. c. 421, together with N. Fabius Vibulanus. (Liv. iv. 43.) 3. T. Quinctius T. f. T. n. Capitolinus Par- BATUS, a son of No. 2, consular tribune in b. c, 405. (Liv. iv. 61 ; Zonar. vii. 20.) 4. T. Quinctius Capitolinus, consular tribune in a c. 385, and magister equitum in the same year to the dictator Q. Cornelius Cossus. (Liv. vi. U.) 5. T. Quinctius Cincinnatus Capitolinus, consular tribune in B. c. 388. [Cincinnatus.]