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- ...P. Rusilius Rusus.
- ...C. Manilius.
PVblius Rutilius Rufus and C. Manilius, are put downe by Obsequens and Cassiodorus for this yeeres Consuls. This P. Rutilius, Cicero in Brutus, calleth the sonne of Marcus. About the other Consull the Annales doe varie and disagree; some forename him C. others Cneus. Some name him M. Manlius, others Mallius or Manilius. But all this controversie is decided by an old antiquitie in stone at Puteoli: the in∣scription whereof testifieth that P. Ratilius and Cn. Mallius were Consuls; as also the evidence of the Sicilian registers, wherein written it is Rufus and Mallius. Of this Mallius, mention there is made in Ciceroes Orations for Planci∣us and Muraena: likewise in Valerius, Salust, Ta∣cirus, Elorus, Eutropius and Orosius. That hee was not onely a base man and of low birth, but also without all vertue and wit, in the course of his life also vile and contemptible, Cicero wri∣teth in his Oration for Plancius. Whereby it easily appeareth, that the Mallij were a kinred different from the Manlij. For of Cn. Manlius a Patritian, and that of a most noble house, Cicero would never have spoken in such tearmes.