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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.

See also

• Aulia gens

References

1. Livy, History of Rome, xxvii. 26, 27.
2. "M'. Aulius", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 435.
3. 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).

• Ancient Roman military personnel
• 208 BC deaths
• Roman commanders of the Second Punic War
• Aulii