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and she not only kept in obedience the cities en- upon his tribunate onthe 10th of-December,. c.
trusted to her, but also added to them by conquest 67, and on the last day of the year carried a lavw,
the maritime towils of Larissa, Hamaxitus, and granting to the freedmen the right of voting in all
Colonae, which she took with the Greek mercena- the tribes along with their patrons; but as there
ries whom she maintained liberally in her service. seems to have been a violation of some constiShe continued to conciliate the favour of Pharna- tutional forms in the comitia, the senate was able
bazus by frequent presents, as well as by splendid on the following day to declare the law invalid.
and agreeable entertainments, whenever he came (Dion Cass. xxxvi. 25; Ascon. in Cic. Corn. pp.
into her satrapy. The valuable assistance, too, 64, 65, ed. Orelli; comp. MANLIUS, NO. 5.) Not
which she rendered him both by arms and coun- disheartened by this failure, Manilius shortly aftersel, he fully appreciated; and she seems to have wards brought forward a bill, granting to Pompey
been at the height of her prosperity, when she was the command of the'war against Mithridates and
murdered by her son-in-law MEIDIAS, shortly be- Tigranes, and the government of the provinces of
fore the arrival of Dercyllidas in Asia, in B. c. 399. Asia, Cilicia, and Bithynia, in the place of Lucullus,
(Xen. Hell. iii. I. ~~ 10-14; Polyaen. viii. 54.) Marcius Rex, and Acilius Glabrio. This bill was
2. An Athenian hetaera, a great favourite of warmly opposed by Q. Catulus, Q. Hortensius, and
Demetrius Poliorcetes. Mania was only her the leaders of the aristocratical party, hut was
nickname. (Mach. ap. Aihen. xiii. pp. 578, *passed notwithstanding by the people, who were
579.) [E. E.] worn out by the length of the war, and were very
MANIA'CES GEO'RGIUS. [GEORaIUs, ready to bestow new honours upon their favourite
No. 15, p. 246.] Pompey. Cicero, who was then praetor, spoke in
MA'NIAE (Mav[e), certain mysterious divini- favour of the law; and the oration which he deties, who had a sanctuary in the neighbourhood of livered on the occasion has come down to us, and
Megalopolis, in Arcadia, and whom Pausanias is one of the best specimens of his declamatory
(viii. 34. ~ 1) considered to be the same as the oratory. The reasons which induced Cicero to
Eumenides. [L. S.] support the bill and to praise Pompey in such:
MANI'LIA GENS, plebeian. It is difficult extraordinary terms, are mentioned in the life of
often to distinguish persons of this name from the the former. [Vol. I. p. 711.] (Cic. pro Lege
Melanlii and llallii, as we sometimes find the same MAanilia; Dion Cass. xxxvi. 25, 26; Vell. Pat. ii.
person called M/Ianilius, 11Manlius, and Aleallius, in 33; Liv. Epit. 100; Appian, B. Mithr. 97; Plut.
different authors, or in different manuscripts of the Pomp. 30, Luctll. 35.) Manilius had incurred
same author. The first person of this gens who the bitter enmity of the aristocratical party; and,
obtained the consulship was M. MANILIUS, in therefore, immediately upon the expiration of his
B.C. 149; but the gens never became of importance tribunate he was brought to trial before Cicero;
in the state, and the smallness of its numbers is whose praetorship had still a few days to run.
shown by its never being divided into any families. Dion Cassius and Plutarch speak as if Cicero was
Under the republic its only cognomen is MANCINUS, at first unfavourably disposed towards the accused,
though even this, perhaps, belongs to the Manlii; and was induced to support him and attack the
but in the time of the empire we find one or two senate by the evident displeasure which the people
surnames. There are no coins of this gens. felt at his conduct. But this can hardly be a true
MANI'LIUS. 1. SEX. MANILIus, was elected account of the affair; for Cicero would certainly
with M. Oppius, as the commander of the soldiers, have had every reason for supporting the partizan
in their secession to the Aventine during the of Pompey, whose favour and support he was so
second decemvirate, B. c. 449 (Liv. iii. 51). He anxious to gain in order to secure his election to
is called Manllius (MdALos) by Dionysius (xi. 44). the consulship. So much, however, is certain:
2.'P. M.aNILIvS, one of the legates sent into -that the trial of Manilius was put off to the followlllyricum in B. c. 167, to settle the affairs of that ing year, that Cicero spoke in his favour, and that,
country after the conquest of Perseus (Liv. xlv. 17). notwithstanding all the efforts of his advocate, he
3. M. MANILIUS, consul B. C. 149,'was a jurist. was condemned. Of what offence Manilius was
[See below.] accused, is uncertain; Plutarch speaks of extortion,
4. MANILIUS, praetor B. C. 137, was defeated but Asconius says that he was accused of violently
in Sicily by Eunus, the leader of the slaves in the disturbing the court for the trial of C. Cornelius.
great servile war in that island. [EuNus.] (Flor. [C. CORaNRLUS.] (Dion Cass. xxxvi. 27; Plut.
iii. 19; comp. Liv. Epit. 56; Oros. v. 6.) Cic. 9; Ascon. in Cic. Corael. pp. 50, 75, ed.
5. P. MANILIUS, consul B.C. 120, with C. Pa- Orelli; Cic. Orat. Fragm. pp. 445, 448, 450, ed.
pirius Carbo, but nothing is recorded of him. Orelli;'Q. Cic. de Pet. Con. 13.)
(Cassiod.; Chron. Alex.; Fasti Noris.) 8. Q. MANILIUS CUMANUS, tribune of the plebs
6. L. MANILIUS, praetor probably in B. c. 79, B. c. 52. (Ascon. in Cic. /il. p. 38, ed. Orelli.)
had the government of Narbonese Gaul, with the M. MANI'LIUS, the jurist. The praenomen of
title of proconsul, in B. c. 78. In the latter year Manilius is generally given as Manius in the printed
he crossed over into Spain, with three legions and books, but Mai asserts that in the MS. of Cicero,
1500 horse, to assist Metellus in the war against De Re Publica, the name' is clearly written'M',
Sertorins; but he was defeated by Hirtuleius, one which means Marcus, and not M''., which would
of the generals of Sertorius, lost his camp and bag- mean Manius.
gage, and escaped almost alone into the town of Marcus Manilius is one of the speakers in the
Ilelda. (Oros. v. 22; Liv. JEpit. 90; Plut. De Re Publica (i 12), and consequently a conSetotr. 12.) temporary of C. Fannius, Q. Scaevola, Laelius,
7 C. MANILIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 66, and Scipin Africanus the younger. He was a jurist
was a partisan of Pompey, and is described by (De Rep. iii. 10) and be is mentioned by PomVelleius Paterculus (ii. 33) as "semper venalis et ponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 1. ~ 39) with P. Mucius,
alienne minister potentiae." Manilius entered Pontifex Maximus, and Brutus; he calls these
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