He captured Sardinia in 40 BC for Sextus, driving out Octavian's governor Marcus Lurius.
[1] The biographer Plutarch relates how during a banquet aboard Sextus Pompey's flagship at the time of the Pact of Misenum (39 BC) with the triumvirs Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus aboard, Menas suggested to Sextus Pompey: "...Shall I," said he, "cut the cables and make you master not of Sicily only and Sardinia, but of the whole Roman empire?"
- Plutarch, Parallel Lives, 'Life of Antony' However, Sextus told him that he should have done it without asking him because he now could not break his treaty oath made to the triumvirs.
[2] In 38 BC Menas surrendered Sardinia to Octavian and received equestrian rank as a reward.
Menas appears as a character in William Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra.