О Манилии я нашла только одно упоминание в Scholia Bobiensia, с.284
Nam quum C. Manilius post annum tribunatus sui quem turbulentissime gesserat, causam de maiestate diciturus esset
Но, как я поняла, это вопрос спорный: некоторые исследователи считают, что его все-таки за вымогательство осудили.
Зато пока искала, нашла другие интересные вещи. Цитаты из Аскония, курсивом выделены слова Цицерона:
(60) Then in the next year, in the consulship of L. Cotta and L. Torquatus (the one in which this speech was delivered by Cicero, who had recently ended his praetorship), after Manilius, who had broken up the trial by means of gangleaders, had first made a court appearance and then, because in accord with the senatorial decree both consuls… were providing protection for the trial, he had made no answer and had been condemned, Cominius recovered himself (and) in order to allay the scandal of taking money, renewed his accusation of Cornelius under the law de maiestate. The proceedeins took place amid widespread speculation over the outcome. Cornelius, greatly alarmed at the political destruction of Manilius, brought few friends into court, so that there should not be even vocal demonstration for him raised by his advocates.
(66) He is speaking about the disruption of the trial of Manilius:
He was driven into that bout of madness on the instigation of other important individuals, who were eager to establish some precedent for disrupting trials – which was damaging in the extreme for the state, perfectly suited to their own circumstances and completely contrary to my own political principles.
He seems to mean L. Catilina and Cn. Piso. Now Catilina was a patrician and at that same time had been arraigned de repetundis, after holding command in Africa and declaring himself a candidate for the consulship. His accuser was P. Clodius, a young man himself of rotten character, who later pursued enmity with Cicero. Cn. Piso too, a young man, powerful and a troublemaker, was on good terms with Catilina, party to all his counsels and instigator of riots.
(76) He says that the plebs as a result of the discomfiture of Manilius had been defeated and brought into subjection:
They claim that on account of the rashness shown by that tribune of the plebs, your hearts may be brought to detest even the very name of that power; that of those who restored that power, the one can do nothing in the face of so many, and the other is too far away.
I think it is obvious to you that M. Crassus and Cn. Pompeius are meant, of whom Crassus at the time was sitting on the jury in Cornelius’ trial, Pompeius was waging the Mithridatic War in Asia.
