Manʹlian Orders

Overstrained severity. Manlius Torquaʹtus, the Roman consul, gave orders in the Latin war that no Roman, on pain of death, should engage in single combat; but one of the Latins provoked young Manlius by repeated insults, and Manlius slew him. When the young man took the spoils to his father, Torquaʹtus ordered him to be put to death for violating the commands of his superior officer