someone prosecuted Manlius for keeping his son out of politics (and also for failing to give up his army command on time during a war, like those things are equal). When Torquatus heard that his father was being prosecuted for anything at all, he became furious and rushed to Rome. I like to imagine him grabbing a horse and riding through the night in a melodramatic fury, because he went not to the courts, but to the home of the prosecutor. In the middle of the night.
