A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

MARINIANA. MARINUS. 951
of Marsus, a Roman advocate and procurator, who fact'which at once destroys the story invented by
settled at Eleutheropolis in Palestine. He flou- Vaillant. (Trebell. Poll. Valerian. jun.,ad Salonic.
rished in the reign of Anastasius, and wrote para- c. 1; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 388.) [W. R.]
phrases (,tsesaepdca-rs) in iambic verse of several MARI'NUS, a centurion, who, in the reign of
Greek authors, namely, of Theocritus, of the Argo- Philippus (A. D. 249), was saluted emperor in
nautica of Apollonius, of the Hecale, the Hymns, Moesia, by the soldiers, who soon after put him to
the Atria, and- the epigrams of Callimachus, of death. A brass medal is extant, struck at PhilipAratus, of the Theriaca of Nicander, and many popolis, in Thrace, bearing the legend OEnI. MAPIothers. (Suidas, s. v.) Evagrius (H./. iii. 42) Nn; but the Greek coin, quoted by Goltzius as
calls him Map7vor. exhibiting the names P. Carvilius Marinus, is reThere are five epigrams in the Greek Anthology garded with suspicion. (Zonar. xii. 19; Zosim. i.
ascribed to Marianus Scholasticus, who may, per- 20; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 373.) [W. R.]
haps, have been the same person. Four of these MARI'NUS (Mapigos), of Flavia Neapolis, in
are descriptions of the groves and baths of Eros in Palestine, a philosopher and rhetorician, was the
the suburbs of Amaseia in Pontus. (Brunck, Anal. pupil and successor of Proclus, respecting -whose
vol. ii. p. 511; Jacobs, Antis. Grae. vol. iii. p. 211, life he wrote a work, which is still extant; he also
vol. xiii. p. 915.) [P. S.] wrote some other philosophical works. (Suid. s. v.)
MARI'CA, a Latin nymph who was worshipped An epigram of his, on his own life of Proclus, is
at Minturnae, and to whom a grove was sacred on preserved in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal.
the river Liris. She was said to be the mother of vol. ii. p. 446; Jacobs, Antis. Graec. vol. iii. p. 153,
Latinus by Faunus. (Virg. Aen. vii. 47.) Ser- vol. xiii. p. 915.) Proclus died A. D. 485; Marivius (ad Aen. 1. c. and xii. 164) remarks that nus, therefore, lived under the emperors Zeno and
some considered her to be identical with Aphrodite Anastasius. The publication of his life of Proclus
and others with Circe. [L. S.] is fixed by internal evidence to the year of ProMARIDIANUS, C. COSSU'TIUS, a contemn- clus's death; for he mentions an eclipse which
porary of Julius Caesar, -whose name occurs only will happen when the first year after that event
upon coins, a specimen of which is given below. shall have been completed (p. 29; Clinton, Fast.
He was one of the'triumvirs of the mint, as we see Rom. sub ann.). Marinus's life of Proclus was first
from the letters A. A. A. F. F. (i. e. auro argento published with the works of Marcus Antoninus,
aeri flando ferindo) on the reverse of the coin. Tigur. 1559, 8vo., reprinted Lugd. Bat. 1626,
The head on the obverse is Julius Caesar's. 12mo.; next with the work of Proclus on'Plato's
theology, Hamburg, 1618, fol.: the first separate
edition was that of Fabricius, with valuable Prolegomena, Hamburg, 1700, 4to., reprinted Lond.
~1t tl 2 7 l 9 a \ &1703, 8vo. Boissonade has re-edited the work,
with a much improved text, and valuable notes of
Ib IBS5l~5 ~ VA, l ii his own, in addition to the Prolegomena and notes
of Fabricius, Lips. 1814, 8vo. (abric. Bibl. Graec.
vol. ix. p. 370; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 319,
ed. Westermann.) [P. S.]
MARI'NUS (Map47os), of Tyre, a Greek geograCOIN OF C. COSSUTIUS MARIDIANUS. pher, who lived in the middle of the second century
of the Christian era, and was the immediate preMARINIA'NA. A considerable number of
of the three metals, all decessor of Ptolemy, who frequently refers to him.
medals are extant in each of the three metals, al Marinus was undoubtedly the founder of matheof which exhibit upon the obverse a veiled head, matical geography in antiquity; and we learn from
and the words oDIVAR MAaINIANAE, and generally Ptolemy's own statement (i. 6) that he based his
*upon the reverse CONSECATIO. One, however, whole work upon that of Marinus. The chief
bears the date of the 15th year of the colony of merit of Marinus was, that he put an end to the
Viminacium, which proves that it must have been
Viminacium, which proves that it must have been uncertainty that had hitherto prevailed respecting
struck A. D. 254. This princess therefore belongs the positions of places, by assigning to each its
to the reign of Valerian, but we cannot tell whether latitude and longitude. He also constructe
s *r. >.... latitude and longitude. He also Constructed maps
she was the wife, the sister, or the daughter of for his works on much improved principles, which
that emperor. We know that he was married at
are spoken of under PTOLEMAEUS. In order to
least twice, since Trebellius Pollio informs us that obtain as much accuracy as possible, Marinus was
obtain as much accuracy as possible, Marinus was
Gallienus and Valerianus, jun. were, only half- indefatigable in studying the works of his p
brothers,.and sinc i iadefatigable in studying the works of his predebrothers, and since it is probable that the mother cessors, the diaries kept by travellers, and every
of the former was named Gailiena, the latter may cessors, the diaries kept by travellers, and every
of e the forer was named Galliena, -the latter my available source. He made many alterations in the
have been the child of Mariana. This, however,
second edition of his work, and would have -still
is a mere conjecture. Whoever she may have been, further improved it if he had not been carried off
it is at all events certain that she was dead at by an untimely death. (Ukert, Geographie der
least four years before the Persian expedition, a Griechen undiimer ol. i. pars i. p. 227, &c., pars
ii. pp. 194, &c., 278; Forbiger, Handbuck der
E,/l wJ s 5. + Alten Geographie, vol i. p. 365, &c.)
NME /0 Ad\ Ad/a /~ AMARI'NUS (Mapios), a celebrated physician
- E i: 4 o )and anatomist, who must have lived in the first
and second centuries after Christ, as Quintus,
Galen's tutor, was one of his pupils (Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. "De Nat. Horn." ii. 6, vol. xv. p.
136). He wrote numerous anatomical treatises (or
COIN OF MARINIANA. else one long work in twenty books), which Galen
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