He left Epirus and sailed to Anticyra (on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth in Boeotia) and marched to Thessaly.
Then he gave up his attempts first to force his way through Elimea, and then to secretly march through Thessaly and reach Macedon because Perseus anticipated all his moves.
[1] He might have been the Hostilius who proposed the Lex Hostilia, which allowed prisoners of war or those who were absent on public business, and therefore could not attend a trial, and those who were under their guardianship to be represented in court.
Mancinus being injured from the stones brought his case to the tribunes, but was appealed as it "would not have been to her (Manilia's) advantage to admit him".
[3] This being a reference to Manilia's fear that Mancinus would destroy her property, subject her to rape or another form of physical assault, and/or murder her.