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896 MAENIUS. MAENIUS.
sign of Maelius was to obtain the consulship for protecting power of the tribunes ceased. All who
himself, and to compel the patricians to divide it be- refused to obey the summons of the consuls were
tween the two orders. None of the alleged accom- punished (Dionys. viii. 87). The manuscripts of
plices of Maelius was punished; but Ahala was Dionysius have C. Manins, for which Lupus subbrought to trial, and only escaped condemnation by stituted Manilius, and Gelenius Maenius; but
a voluntary exile. [AHALA, No. 2.] (Liv. iv. the latter is no doubt the correct conjecture. (Nie13-16; Zonar. vii. 20; Dionys. Exc. Vat. in buhr,Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. p. 185, n. 410.)
Mai, Nov. Collect. ii. p. 466; Cic. de Senect. 16, 3. M. MAENIUS, tribune of the plebs B. c. 410,
in Cat. i. 1, de Rep. ii. 27, Philipp. ii. 44, pro was the proposer of an agrarian law, and attempted,
lkIil. 17, pro Dom. 38; Val. Max. vi. 3. ~ I; like his predecessor [No. 2], to prevent the consuls
Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. p. 418, &c.) from levying troops, till this law was passed and
2. SP. MAELIUS, tribune of the plebs B. C. 436, carried into execution. But as the - consuls were
brought in a bill for confiscating the property of supported by the nine colleagues of Maenius, they
Ahala, but it failed. (Liv. iv. 21.) Livy makes were able to enforce the levy. So great was the
no other mention of the punishment of Ahala; but popularity of Maenius, that the senate resolved
it is stated on other authorities, as is mentioned that consuls should be elected for the following
above, that Ahala was brought to trial, and only year, and not consular tribunes, because, if the
escaped condemnation by a voluntary exile. (Val. latter had been elected, Maenius would have been
Max. v. 3. ~ 2; comp. Cic. de Rep. i. 3, pro Dom. sure to have been one of the number. (Liv. iv. 53.)
32.)' 4. P. MAENIUS, is mentioned by Livy as con3. Q. MAELIUS, tribune of the plebs B. c. 320, sular tribune in B. c. 400, and again in B. C. 396
maintained, with his colleague, Ti. Numicius or L. (Liv. v. 12, 18).. The name, however, is written
Livius, that the peace made with the Samnites at variously inthe manuscripts. -Alschefski, the latest
the Caudine Forks ought to be faithfully kept. editor of Livy, reads -P. Manlius in the former of
They'had been present at the battle, and they are these years, but retains P. Maenius in the latter.
mentioned among the other officers who were sur- In the Fasti Capitolini the name Maenius does not
rendered to the Samnites, when the Romans re- occur in either of these years, but instead of it we
solved not to adhere to the agreement. (Liv. ix. have P. Manlius Vulso, in B. C. 400, and Q.
8; Cic. de Off. iii. 30.) As to the question how Manlius Vulso, in B. C. 396. The names in
tribunes of the plebs could have been with the Diodorus (xiv. 47, 90) differ again; and it seems'
army on that occasion, see Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, to be impossible to reconcile the conflicting statevol. iii. p. 220. ments'. In any case Livy is in error in designating
MAEMACTES (Maidiac'I), i. e. the stormy, Maelius and his colleagues as patricians.
a surname of Zeus, from which the name of-the 5. M. MAENIUS, occurs in the old editions of
Attic month Maemacterion was derived. In that'Livy (vi. 19) as tribune of the plebs in B. C. 384,
month the Maemacteria was celebrated at Athens. where, however, Alschefski, in accordance with the
(Plut. de ir. cohib. 9.) [L. S.] best MSS., now reads Ag. Menenius. In the same
MAENA'LIUS or MAENA'LIDES (Mavad- way, in another passage (vii. 16), we ought to
Aros), a surname of Pan, derived from mount read L. Menenius, instead of L. Mraenius, as tribune
Maenalus in Arcadia, which was sacred to the of the plebs in B. c. 357.
god. (Paus. viii. 26. ~ 2, 36. ~ 5; Ov. Fast. iv. 6. C.' MAENIUS P. F. P. N., consul, in B. C.
650.) [L. S.] 338, with L. Furius Camillus. [CAMILLUS, No.
MAE'NALUS (Mae, ahos), the name of two 4.] The two consuls completed the subjugation
mythical personages, the one a son of Lycaon, and of Latium; they were both rewarded with a
founder of the Arcadian town of Maenalus (Paus. triumph; and equestrian statues, then a'rare disviii. 3. ~ 1), and the other the father of Atalanta. tinction, were erected to their honour in the forum.
(Apollod. iii. 9, fin.) - [L. -S.]' Maenius defeated, on the river Astura, the Latin
MAE'NIA GENS, (on coins and inscriptions army, which had'advanced to the relief of Antilm,
frequently written MAINIA,) plebeian, produced and the rostra of some of the ships of the Antiates
several distinguished champions of the rights of were applied to ornament the suggestus or stage in
the plebeian order, The first and only member of the forum from which the orators addressed the
it who obtained the consulship, was C. Maenius people. In consequence of this victory, Maenius
(cos. B. C. 338). In ancient writers no cognomen seems to have obtained the surname of Antiaticus,
is mentioned in this gens, but it appears from coins which, we know from coins, was borne by his
that some members bore the surname of Anliaticus descendants. [See below, No. 8.] The statue of
[see MAENIUS, Nos. 6 and 8]. Maenius was placed upon a column, which is spoken
MAE'NIUS. 1. MAENIUS, or according to some of by later writers under the name of Columna
manuscripts MAEVIUS, was the proposer of the law Maenia, and which appears to have stood near the
by which an addition was made to the Circensian end of the forum, on the Capitoline. (Liv. viii.
games of the day," called instauratitius (Macrob. 13; Flor. i. 11; Plin. H.N. xxxiv. 5. s. 11, vii.
Sat. i. 11). We learn from Livy (ii. 36) that this 60; Cic. pro Sest. 58; Becker, Handbuch der
happened in B. C. 489, and, we may therefore sup- R1misch. Alterth. vol. i. p. 322; Osann, De Copose that Maenius was tribune of the plebs in that lumna Maenia, Giessen, 1844.)
year. In B. C. 320 Maenius was appointed dictator, in
2. C. MAENIUS, tribune of the plebs B. C. 483, order to investigate the plots and conspiracies
attempted to' prevent the consuls'from levying which many of the Romali nobles were suspected
troops till they carried into effect a division of the to have formed, in conjunction with the leading
ager publicus among the plebs, but this opposition men of Capua, which revolted in the following
was rendered of no effect, by the consuls with- year. Maenius named M. Foslius Flaccinator as
drawing from the city and holding the levy outside the magister equitum, and both magistrates conthe walls, at a mile beyond the gates, where the ducted the inquiry with great vigour, and brought