Lucius Manlius Acidinus (fl. late 3rd century BC) was a member of the Manlia gens who stood as ''

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'' in 210 BC. He was sent by the senate into

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to bring back the consul Marcus Valerius Laevinus to Rome to hold the elections. In 207 he was with the troops stationed at

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a to oppose Hasdrubal, and was the first to send to Rome intelligence of the defeat of the latter. In 206 he and Lucius Cornelius Lentulus had the province of

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entrusted to them with

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ar power. In the following year he conquered the

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and

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, who had rebelled against the Romans in consequence of the absence of Scipio. He did not return to Rome until 199, but was prevented by the tribune

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from entering the city in an

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, which the senate had granted him.

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, xxviii. 38, xxix. 1—3, 13, xxxii. 7

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