Ma'ncia, He'lvius
a Roman orator (about B. C. 90), who was remarkably ugly, and whose name is recorded chiefly in consequence of a laugh being raised against him on account of his deformity by C. Julius Caesar Strabo [CAESAR, No. 10], who was opposed to him on one occasion in some law-suit. (
Cic. de Orat. 2.66;
Quint. Inst. 6.3.38;
Plin. Nat. 35.4 : the last writer mentions the orator Crassus as the person who raised the laugh against Mancia.) Cicero further relates a smart saying of Mancia on another occasion (
de Orat. 2.68).