Mancinus

Mancinus, despairing to make his way through by force, sent

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

After that expedition, being chosen paymaster, it was his fortune to serve in the war against the Numantines, under the command of Caius Mancinus, the consul, a person of no bad character, but the most unfortunate of all the Roman generals.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Romans, contributed to save him, though indeed he was also censured for not protecting Mancinus too, and that he did not exert himself to maintain the observance of the articles of peace which had been agreed upon by his kinsman and friend Tiberius.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Your tribune of the plebs, Mancinus, went to the Assembly of the Plebs and procured you a plebiscite extending your governorship of Africa Province without any trouble at all.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

But at the moment the Plebeian Assembly, ably led by Mancinus, took his African command off him, his name in Rome was muddier than the pigsty of Numantia.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Mancinus was out to make a splash as a tribune of the plebs, and needed a cause better than the only one which mattered to him — the casting of every impediment he could think of in the path of the patrician Manlius family, of which he was not a member.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

The crowd was rapt; Mancinus was a good speaker, and felt passionately about senatorial exclusivity.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Down the steps of the Curia and across to the rostra along the back of the Comitia marched the consul Marius and the tribune of the plebs Mancinus; the quaestor Sulla, a patrician, remained on the Senate House steps.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

By which definition even the cause of Mancinus may be defended by saying that he returned

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

He made a rapid return journey with the lightest equipped portion of the army and found that Hasdrubal had entered Carthage and was attacking Mancinus fiercely.

Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form Cassius Dio