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

960 MARIUS. MAROBODUUS.
sportive tone. The estate of Marius was in the be developed within the space of forty-eight hours.
neighbourhood of Pompeii, not far from the Pom- (Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyrann. vii.; Victor, de Caes.
peianum of Cicero. Almost all that we know xxxiii. 39; Eutrop. ix. 7.)
about'this Marius is contained in the four letters It appears from coins'that the full name of this
of Cicero already referred to. He is also mentioned usurper was C. Il. Aurelius Marius; but on some
by him in a letter to his brother Quintus. (Ad Q. coins, as on the one annexed, he is called simply
Fr. ii. 10.) C. Marius. (Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 454.) [W. R.]
7. L. MARIUS, L. F., was one of those who subscribed the accusation of Triarius against Scaurus,,
in B. c. 54 (Ascon. in Cie. Scaur. p. 19, ed. Orelli).
He is probably the same as the Marius who was 3K a IF
quaestor in B. c. 50, and succeeded C. Sallustius in
the government of the province of Syria. (Cic. %
ad Fam. ii. 17.) ~
8. L. MARIUS, was tribune of the plebs with
Cato Uticensis, B. C. 62, and in conjunction with
him, brought forward a law De Triumphis (Val. COIN OF AURELIUS MARIUS.
Max. ii. 8. ~ 1). MA'RIUS BLO'SIUS. [BLosius, No. 1.]
9. M. MARIUS, whom Cicero calls homo disertlus MA/RI US CALVE'NTIUS. [CALVENTIUS.]
et nobilis, pleaded the cause of the Valentini before MAIRIUS CELSUS. [CEsvs.]
C. Verres. (Cic. Verr. v. 16.) MA/RIUS EGNA'TIUS. [EGNATIUS, No. 2.]
10. SEX. MARIUs, a legate of Dolabella in MA'RIUS MATU'RUS. [MATURUS.]
Syria, in B. C. 43. (Cic. ad Fam. xii. 15.) MA'RIUS MA'XIMUS. [MAxIMU.s.
11. T. MARIUS, of Urbinum, had risen from MA/RIUS MERCA/TOR. [MERCATOR.]
the rank of a common soldier to honours and riches, MA/RIUS PLO'TIUS. [PLOTIUS.]
by the favour of the emperor Augustus. A tale MA'RIUS PRISCUS. [PRIscvs.]
is told of him by Valerius Maximus (vii. 8. ~ 6). MA'RIUS SECUNDUS. [SECUNDUS.]
12. SEX. MARIUS, a man of immense wealth, MA'RIUS SE'GIUS. [SERGIUS.]
who possessed gold mines in Spain, and lived in MA'RIUS STATI'LIUS. [STATLeIUS.]
the reign of Tiberius. He is called by Tacitus MA'RIUS VICTORI'NUS. [VICT6RINUS.]
Hisyxaniarum ditissimus. After escaping an accusa- MARMARINUS (MapuAdp~vos), i. e. the god
tion in A. D. 25, which Calpurnius Salv'ianus wished of marble, a surname of Apolio, who had a sancto bring against him, he was condemned to death tuary in the marble quarries at Carystus. (Strab.
in A. D. 33, and thrown down the Tarpeian rock, x. p. 446; Eustath. ad Horn. p. 281.) [L. S.]
on the pretext of his having committed incest with MARMAX (MdppwaP), one of the suitors of
his daughter, but in reality because the emperor Hippodameia, who was slain by Oenomaus, and
coveted his riches (Tac. Ann. iv. 36, vi. 19). was buried with his two horses, Parthenia and
Dion Cassius, who says that Marius was a friend Eripha. (Paus. vi. 21 ~ 6.) [L. S.]
of Tiberius, and that he was indebted to the em- MARO, JOANNES. [JOANNEs, No. 85.]
peror for his wealth, gives a different reason'for the'MARO, VIRGI'LIUS. [VIRGILIUS.]
condemnation of Marius; he relates that the MAROBO'DUUS, Marbod, afterwards king of
charge of incest was brought against Marius, be- the Marcomanni, or men of the Mark (maerc) or
cause he wished to conceal his daughter from the border, or, according to another etymology, the
lust of his imperial master. (Dion Cass. lviii. 22.) Marsh land, was by birth a Suevian. He was
MA'RIUS A'LFIUS, the medix tuticus, or born about B. C. 18, of a noble family in his tribe,
supreme magistrate of the Campanians, was de- and was sent in his boyhood with other hostages
feated and slain in battle by the Roman consul, to Rome, where he attracted the notice of AugusTib. Sempronius Gracchus, B. c. 215. (Liv. xxiii. tus, and received a liberal education. Maroboduus
35.) - seems early to have discerned the relative position
MA'RIUS, M. AURE'LIUS, one of the thirty of his countrymen and the Romans. The Germans
tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio [see Au- were brave, numerous and enterprising, but weakREOL US], was the fourth of the usurpers who' in ened by internal feuds, and impatient of governsuccession ruled Gaul, in defiance of. Gallienus. ment and discipline. Before they could effectually
According to the statements of the Augustan his- resist or assail the Roman empire they needed the
torians and Victor, he wasa blacksmith, remarkable restraints'of laws and of fixed'property in land.
only for his extraordinary muscular strength, and At'what time Maroboduus returned to his own
deserving to be remembered in history merely on country is uncertain, but probably soon after he
account of the unparalleled shortness of his reign, attained manhood, since he died at the age of 53,
which lasted for two, or at the most, three days. the last eighteen years of his life were spent in
Although the authorities cited above, together with exile, and his kingdom, when it awakened the
Eutropius, agree in limiting the duration of his jealousy of Rome, was the work of long and syspower to this space, it is a singular fact that a con- tematic preparation. Crossing the Erzgebirge at
siderable number of coins, in each of the three the head of at least one branch of the Suevians,
metals, are to be found in various collections, which Maroboduus expelled, or more probably subdued,
we can scarcely suppose to have been engraved, the Boians, a Celtic race, who inhabited Bohemia
struck, and issued within such a period, and Eckhel and part of Bavaria. The kingdom which Marohas acutely pointed out an-inconsistency in Victor, boduus- established amid the woods and morasses
who, in the life of Diocletian, speaks of Marius as of central Germany extended, through immediate
having been one of those who, when suddenly invasion or gradual encroachments, along the north
elevated, became " superbia atque ambitione im- bank- of'the Danube, from Regensberg nearly to
nmodicos," feelings and passions which could scarcely the borders of Hungary, and stretched far into the