Mescinia gens
Roman gens
The gens Mescinia was a minor plebeian family at Rome. None of its members held any of the higher magistracies, but Lucius Mescinius Rufus, perhaps the most famous of the gens, was quaestor under Cicero during the latter's administration of Cilicia. Other Mescinii are known from inscriptions.
Members
This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
Lucius Mescinius Rufus, quaestor under Cicero in Cilicia, in 51 BC. The two did not work well together, but their relations improved, as recounted in Cicero's letters to and on behalf of Rufus. After Caesar's death, he joined the party of Gaius Cassius Longinus, who sent him to plunder Tarsus. He must later have been reconciled with Octavian, as he was triumvir monetalis in 17 and 16 BC.
Marcus Mescinius, the former master of Gnaeus Mescinius Philologus.
Gnaeus Mescinius M. l. Philologus, mentioned in an inscription from Delos.
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