Mancia
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Manciam Proper-name noun: masculine accusative singular of Mancia
- a Roman surname, e. g. Q. Mucius Mancia, Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109.
Ipse vero quod cuique opus erit, juxta facultates domus provide dispensabit, Mancias, et alia, quæ fuerint necessario danda intus et foris, cum consilio Archipresbyteri sine murmure tribuet, etc.Ubi
Manciaidem est, quod
mensa. Vide in hac voce.
Manciasdonum clientibus factum interpretatur Mabillonius in Notis ad Ord. Rom. tom. 2. Musei Italici pag. 129. unde
manumvocat Benedictus
presbyterium, seu donativum quod summi Pontifices distribuere solent, maxime cum inaugurantur. Vide in Manus.
Mancia, quel, che si da-dal superiore allo inferiore, o nelle allegrezze, o nelle solennita per una certa amorevolezza, Lat. Strena.
Augurium, omen, devinacion,. Glossar. Provinc. Lat. ex Cod. reg. 7657.
was legatus of the army on the upper Rhine, in the reign of Nero, and assisted Dubius Avitus, praefect of Gaul and lower Germany, in putting down the league of the Tenctheri, Bructeri, and Ampsivarii, against the Romans, A. D. 56-59. (Tac. Ann. 13.56; Phlegon, de Admir. 27.) [W.B.D]
a Roman orator (about B. C. 90), who was remarkably ugly, and whose name is recorded chiefly in consequence of a laugh being raised against him on account of his deformity by C. Julius Caesar Strabo [Caesar, No. 10], who was opposed to him on one occasion in some law-suit. (Cic. de Orat. 2.66; Quint. Inst. 6.3.38; Plin. Nat. 35.4 : the last writer mentions the orator Crassus as the person who raised the laugh against Mancia.) Cicero further relates a smart saying of Mancia on another occasion (de Orat. 2.68).