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Lex Manilia

Lex Manilia proposed by the tribune C. Manilius B.C. 66, and conferring on Cu. Pompeius the command in the war against Mithridates. It was supported by Cicero when praetor in his speech pro lege Manilia (cf. Vell. 2.33, 1; Liv. Epit. 100; D. C. 36.25; Appian, Bell. Mithrid. 97).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.