The New International Encyclopædia/Manilian Law

MANILIAN LAW. A law proposed at Rome in B.C. 66 by the tribune Gaius Manilius, providing for the recall of the commanders then in Asia, where the Romans were fighting Mithridates, and for the extension of Pompey's power over all the East. Cicero made his first address to the people in support of the proposition of Manilius. The speech, Pro Lege Manilia, or De Imperio Cn. Pompeii, is in form superior to the orations against Catiline.