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914 MANCIA. MANCINTUS.
xxix.), Mamurra is attacked, together with the MA'NCIA, HE'LVIUS, a Roman orator (about
dictator, with the severest invectives; but, instead B. c. 90), who was remarkably ugly, and whose
of resenting the insult, Caesar simply retaliated by name is recorded chiefly in consequence of a laugh
inviting the poet to dine with him. In another being raised against him on account of his depoem of Catullus (Carm. lvii.), Mamurra and Caesar formity by C. Julius Caesar Strabo [CAESAR, No.
are said to have lived on the most disgraceful terms; 10], who was opposed to him on one occasion in
and the former is again alluded to in a third poem some law-suit. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 66; Quintil. vi.
(C(ain. xlii. 4), under the name of decoctor For- 3. ~ 38; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 4: the last writer
inianus. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 6, s. 7; Suet. Caes. mentions the orator Crassus as the person who
73; Cic. ad Att. vii. 7, xiii. 52.) Mamurra seems raised the laugh against Mancia.) Cicero further
to have been alive in the time of Horace, who calls relates a smart saying of Mancia on another ocFormiae, in ridicule, Mamzurrarum urbs (Sat. i. 5. casion (de Orat. ii. 68).
37), from which we may infer that his name had MANCI'NUJS HOSTI'LIUS. 1. L. Hosbecome a bye-word of contempt. TILIUS MANCINUS, an officer in tile army of the
MANA or MANA GE'NITA, an ancient dictator Q. Fabius Maximus in B.C. 217. (Liv.
Italian divinity. When a sacrifice was offered to xxii. 15.)
her, the people used to pray that none of those born 2. A. HoSTILIUS L. F. A. N. MANCINUS, was
in the house should become pious, that is, that praetor urbanus B. C. 180, and consul B.C. 170
none shouid die. (Plut. Quaest. Rome. 52.) The with A. Atilius Serranus. In his consulship he
name Mana is of the same root as Manes, and like had the conduct of the war against Perseus, king
manis (whence ianmanis) originally signified good. of Macedonia; but from the fragmentary nature of
(Comp. Macrob. Sat. i. 3; Serv. ad Alen. iii. 63; the accounts that have come down to us, we are
Isidor. Orig. viii. 11.) It is not impossible that unable to form any definite idea of the campaign.
Mana may be the same divinity as Mania. [L. S.] So much, however, seems certain, that he conducted
MANAECHMUS or MENAECHMUS (Ma- the war for the most part on the defensive. He
vatx/uos or MWvalxpos). 1. A native of Sicyon, remained in Greece for part of the next year (B. c.
who lived in the time of the first Ptolemy. He 169) as proconsul; and after passing the winter in
was the son of a man named Alcibius or Alcibiades. Thessaly, he endeavoured to penetrate into MaceHe wrote an account of Alexander the Great; a donia, but was obliged to retire before the superior
treatise'rrpi rEXvl'rV, quoted by Athenaeus, ii. force of Perseus. [For the details see PERSEUS.]
p. 65, a., and elsewhere; and a treatise entitled In the same year he surrendered the command to
2IKvwi'La.Ka, quoted by Athenaeus, vi. p. 271, d. his successor, the consul Q. Marcius Philippus,
Menaechmus is also quoted by the scholiast on Pin- leaving behind him the reputation of having kept
dar-(Nem. ii. 1, ix. 30), and by pliny, I. 1. iv. his soldiers in good discipline, and preserved the
12. s. 21. (Suid. s. v. MdvaPXjuo; Vossius, de Hist. allies from injury, although he had performed no
Gr. p. 102, ed. Westermann.) [MENAECHMUS.] exploit worthy of mention. (Liv. xl. 35, xliii. 4
2. A native of Alopeconnesus, who wrote a -11, 17, xliv. 1; Polyb. xxvii. 14, xxviii. 3, &c.;
commentary on Plato's Republic, which is no Plut. Aemil. Paul. 9.)
longer extant, and'some other philosop.hical works. 2. L. HOSTILIUS MANCINUS, probably son of
(Suidas, s. v.), [: P. M.] No. 1, was engaged as legate of the consul L. CalMANASSES, CONSTANTI'N,US (KwvTorav- purnius Piso (B. C. 148) in the siege. of Carthage,'Ivos d Mav&cra7), lived in the middle of the in the third Punic war. He commanded the fleet,
twelfth century, during the reign of the emperor while Piso was at the head of the land-forces
Manuel Comnenus, and wrote Vu',o,,s i(TropKtc', and, notwithstanding some repulses which he rebeing a chronicle from the creation of the world, ceived, he had the glory of being the first to take
down to the accession of Alexis I. Comnenus, in part of the town, which was finally conquered by
1081. This work is written in a. sort of verses Scipio in B.c. 146. Mancinus on his return to
which the later writers called versus politici, but Rome exhibited in the forum paintings, containing
which is rather rhythmical prose; it contains 6733 views of Carthage and of the different attacks made
of such verses, and 12 supplementary verses. upon it by the Romans, and was constantly ready
Editions: —A Latin version by J. Leunclavius, to explain to the people all the details of the picBasel, 1573, 8vo.; the Greek text, from a Codex tures. He became in consequence such a favourite
Palatinus, with the version of Leunclavius, and with the people, that he was elected consul in B. C.
notes by J. Meursius, Leyden, 1616, 4to; the 145 with Q. Fabius Maximus Aemilianus. (Apsame revised (with Variae Lectiones by Leo Alla- pian, Pun. 110-114; Liv. Epit. 51; Plin. H. N.
tius), from two Parisian MSS., by Fabrot, who xxxv. 4. s. 7; Cic. Lael. 25.)
added a valuable glossary, Paris, 1655, fol.; the last 3. C. HOSTILIUS MANCINUS, probably a brother
edition is that by Im. Bekker, Bonn, 1837, 8vo., a of No. 2, was consul in B. c. 137 with M. Aemilins
revised-reprint of the Paris edition. The edition by Lepidus Porcina, and had the conduct of the war
Meursius is remarkable for being dedicated to the against Numantia. Its unsuccessful issue was
great kilg of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus. (Fabric. foretold the consul by many prodigies. He was
Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 469, &c.; Hamberger, defeated by the Numantines in several engageNachricht. von Gelehrt. Mhnnern.) [W.P.] ments, and at length, being entirely surrounded by
MANA'STABAL. [MAsTANABAL.] the enemy, he negotiated a peace, through the inMA'NCIA, CURTI'LIUS, was legatus of the tervention of his quaestor Tib. Gracchus, who was
army on the upper Rhine, in the reign of Nero, greatly respected by the enemy. Appian says that
and assisted Dubius Avitus, praefect of Gaul and this peace contained the same terms for the Romans
lower Germany, in putting down the league of the and Numantines; but as it must in that case have
Tenctheri, Bructeri, and Ampsivarii, against the recognised the independence of the latter, the senate
Romans, A. D. 56-59. (Tac. Ann. xiii. 56; refused to recognise it, and went through the hyPhlegon, de Admir. 27.) [IV. B. D.] pocritical ceremony of delivering Ovel the constd