person
Lucius Mescinius
Mescinius
also: L. Mescinius, L. Mescinius Rufus, Mescinium, Mescinius
Roman senator and quaestor who served under Cicero, probably during Cicero's Cilician proconsulship (51-50 BC). Their bond (the quaestor-imperator tie) was one of the most respected in Roman public life and Cicero describes the relationship as his closest adult friendship. He is heir to his deceased brother M. Mindius, who had traded at Elis in Achaea; Cicero asks Servius Sulpicius to adjudicate the contested estate (Fam. 13.26). Otherwise unattested beyond Fam. 13.26.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 6.4 §1 the quaestor Mescinius
L. Mescinius Rufus, Cicero's quaestor in Cilicia, whose accounts and conduct Cicero distrusted; leaving the province in a quaestor's hands was the legal default but one Cicero found least acceptable.
- Ad Familiares 13.28 §1 on the matter of L. Mescinius, most welcome of all
Lucius Mescinius Rufus, apparently an eques and man of literary interests closely connected to Cicero; he had business pending in Achaea (Sulpicius's province) and Cicero had evidently written an earlier letter of recommendation on his behalf.
- Ad Familiares 16.4 §3 in the company of the quaestor Mescinius
Lucius Mescinius Rufus was the quaestor of Cicero's province of Cilicia; the quaestorship was the junior financial magistracy, and the two men were travelling home together.
- Ad Familiares 16.9 §4 sail with Mescinius
Lucius Mescinius Rufus, Cicero's quaestor in Cilicia, also making the homeward crossing; Cicero recommends his cautious seamanship as a safe companion for Tiro.