This man’s father reportedly banished him for a speech impediment, but he defended him from the tribune of the plebs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this general who executed his own son for disobedience at the Latin War’s Battle of Vesuvius. His agnomen recalls the neck ring he took from a giant Gaul after single combat.
ANSWER: Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus [or Titus Manlius Torquatus; accept Manlii Torquati; prompt on torc or torque; prompt on Imperiosus; prompt on Titus Manlius]
[10m] A descendant of Torquatus drove his son to suicide over his reported corruption as this Roman province’s governor. This province was founded after Quintus Caecilius (“kai-KEEL-yus”) Metellus defeated Andriscus in its fourth Roman war.
ANSWER: Macedonia [accept Macedon; accept Macedonian Wars or Fourth Macedonian War; accept Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus] (The father and son were Titus Manlius Torquatus and Decimus Silanus.)
[10e] This man, who died in Macedonia at Philippi, struck coins to honor an ancestor who executed his sons for conspiring to restore the Tarquin kings. This man emulated that act by leading a 44 BCE “tyrannicide” with Cassius.
ANSWER: Marcus Junius Brutus [or Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus] (His ancestor was Lucius Junius Brutus. He and Cassius conspired to kill Julius Caesar.)
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