Gnaeus Manlius Vulso was a Roman consul

Consul

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 for the year 189 BC

189 BC

Year 189 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nobilior and Vulso...

, together with Marcus Fulvius Nobilior. He led a victorius campaign against the Galatian

Galatian

Galatian may refer to:*of or relating to Galatia or its people*Galatian language...

 Gauls

Gauls

The Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland and Northern Italy, from the Iron Age through the Roman period. They mostly spoke the Continental Celtic language called Gaulish....

 of Asia Minor

Asia Minor

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 in 189 BC during the Galatian War

Galatian War

The Galatian War was a war between the Galatian Gauls and the Roman Republic supported by their allies Pergamum in 189 BC. The war was fought in Galatia in central Asia Minor, in present day Turkey....

. He may have been awarded a triumph in 187BCE. Florus

Florus

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 has the senate turn down his application, but Livy

Livy

Titus Livius — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC...

 describes his triumphal procession in elaborate detail, including its captives, wagonloads of booty and even the celebratory songs of the soldiery, then uses this triumph to frame a lesson in morality. The Fasti Triumphales has a lacuna in what could be the relevant position.

Vulso was a patrician who belonged to the ancient gens

Gens

In ancient Rome, a gens , plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps . The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the...

 Manlia, but his connection with the better known Torquatus branch is unknown. He may have been descended from Aulus (or Gaius) Manlius Cn.f. Vulso, consul in 474 BC; or from Lucius Manlius A.f. Vulso Longus

Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus

Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus was a patrician who became one of the Roman consuls in both 256 and 250 BC. The term for being consul was one year. Two consuls ruled at a time and one could serve up to two terms. It was the consuls’ job to govern provinces, lead armies in major wars, and run the Senate...

, consul in 256 (with Marcus Atilius Regulus

Marcus Atilius Regulus

Marcus Atilius Regulus , a general and consul in the ninth year of the First Punic War...

) and 250 BC.

Aulus Manlius Cn.f. Vulso, consul eleven years later in 178 BC, may have been his younger brother.