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646 REX. RHAMNUSIA.
REPOSIA'NUS, the name prefixed to a poem, 3. Q. MTRCIUS REX, praetor B. C. 144, was
first published by Burmann, extending to 182 hex- commissioned by the senate to build an aqueduct,
ameter lines, and entitled, " Concubitus Martis et and in order that he might complete it, his imVeneris." With regard to the author nothing is perium was prolonged for another year. This
known. Unless we attribute some inaccuracies in aqueduct, known by the name of Aqua Marcia,
metre and some peculiarities in phraseology to a was one of the most important, and is spoken of at
corrupt text, we must conclude that he belongs to length in the Dictionary of Antiquities (p. 110,
a late epoch, but the piece is throughout replete 2d ed.). (Frontin. de Aquaed. 12; Plin. H. 1V.
with grace and spirit, and presents a series of xxxi. 3. s. 24; Plut. Coriol. 1.)
brilliant pictures. Wernsdorf imagines, that for 4. Q. MARCITUS Q. F. Q. N. REX, consul B. C.
Reposianus we ought to read Nepotianus, merely 118, with M. Porcius Cato. The colony of Narbo
because the former designation does not elsewhere Martius in Gaul was founded in this year. Marcius
occur; but this conjecture being altogether unsup- carried on war against the Stoeni, a Ligurian
ported by evidence, will be received with favour by people at the foot of the Alps, and obtained a
but few. The verses are to be found in Burmann, triumph in the following year on account of his
Anthol. Lat. i. 72, or No. 559, ed. Meyer; see also victories over them. Marcius lost during his conWernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Min. vol. iv. par. i. pp. 52, sulship his only son, a youth of great promise, but
319, vol. v. par. iii. pp. 1470, 1477. [W. R.] had such mastery over his feelings as to meet the
RE'STIO, A'NTIUS. 1. The author of a senate on the day of his son's burial, and perform
sumptuary law, which, besides limiting the expence his regular official duties (Plin. H. N. ii. 31; Gell.
of entertainments, enacted that no magistrate or xiii. 19; Liv. Epit. 62; Oros. v. 14; Fasti Capit.;
magistrate elect should dine abroad anywhere ex- Val. Max. v. 10. ~ 3). The sister of this Marcius
cept at the houses of certain persons. This law, Rex married C. Julius Caesar, the grandfather of
however, was little observed; and we are told that the dictator. [MARCIA, No. 2.]
Antius never dined out afterwards, that lie might 5. Q. MARCIUS Q. F. Rex, probably a grandnot see his own law violated. We do not know son of No. 4, was consul B. C. 68, with L. Caecilius
in what year this law was passed; but it was sub- Metellus. His colleague died at the commencesequent to the sumptuary law of the consul Aemi- ment of his year of office, and as no consul was
lius Lepidus, B. c. 78, and before the one of Caesar elected in his place, we find the name of Marcius
(Gell. ii. 24; Macrob. Sat. ii. 13). Rex in the Fasti with the remark, solus consulatunm
2. Probably a son of the preceding, was pro- gessit. He was proconsul in Cilicia in the followscribed by the triumvirs in ia. c. 43, but was pre- ing year, and there refused assistance to Lucullus,
served by the fidelity of a slave, and by his means at the instigation of his brother-in-law, the celeescaped to Sex. Pompeius in Sicily. (Val. Max. brated P. Clodius, whom Lucullus had offended.
vi. 8. ~ 7; Appian, B. C. iv. 43; Macrob. Sat. i. In B. C. 66, Marcius had to surrender his province
1l.) and army to Pompeius in compliance with the Lex
The name of C. Antius Restio occurs on several Manilia. On his return to Rome he sued for a
coins, a specimen of which is annexed. On the triumph, but as obstacles were thrown in the way
obverse is the head of a man, and on the reverse by certain parties, he remained outside the city to
Hercules, holding in one hand a club, and in the prosecute his claims, and was still there when the
other a trophy, with the skin of a lion thrown Catilinarian conspiracy broke out in B. c. 63. The
across his arm. It is conjectured that the head on senate sent him to Faesulae, to watch the move-the obverse is that of the proposer of the sump- ments of C. Mallius or Manlius, Catiline's general.
tuary law mentioned above [No. 1], and that the Mallius sent proposals of peace to Marcius, but the
coin was struck by his son [No. 2]. (Eckhel, latter refused to listen to his terms unless he convol. v. p. 139.) sented first to lay down his arms (Dion Cass.
xxxv. 4, 14, 15, 17, xxxvi. 26, 31; Cic. in Pison.
4; Sall. Hist. 5, Cat. 30, 32-34). Marcius Rex
married the eldest sister of P. Clodius [CLAUDIA,'( 2 He\$O2No. 7]. He died before B.C. 61, without leaving
a- % Ad his brother-in-law the inheritance he had expected
(Cic. ad Att. i. 16. ~ 10).
REX, RU'BRIUS, probably a false reading
in Appian (B. C. ii. 113) for Rubrius Ruga.
[RUGA.]
RHADAMANTHUS ('Paadave0os), a son of
COIN OF C. ANTIUS'RESTIO. Zeus and Europa, and brother of king Minos of
Crete (Hom. II. xiv. 322), or, according to others,
RESTITU'TUS, CLAU'DIUS, an orator of a son of Hephaestus (Paus. viii. 53. ~ 2). From
considerable reputation in the reign of Trajan, was fear of his brother he fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia,
a friend of the younger Pliny, and is likewise cele- and there married Alcmene. In consequence of
brated by Martial in an epigram on the anniver- his justice throughout life, he became, after his
sary of his birth-day. (Plin. Ep. iii. 9. ~ 16, vi. death, one of the judges in the lower world, and
17, vii. 1; Martial, x. 87.) took up his abode in Elysium. (Apollod. iii. 1. ~
REX, MA'RCIUS. 1. Q. MARCIUS REX, 2, ii. 4. ~ 11; Horn. Od. iv. 564, vii. 323; Pind.
tribune of the plebs B.C. 196, proposed to the 01. ii. 137; comp. GORTYS.) [L. S.]
people to make peace with Philip. (Liv. xxxiii. RHADAMISTUS. [ARsACIDAE, p. 362, b.]
25.) RHAMN USIA ('Palgvovria), a surname of
2. P. MARCIUS REX, was sent by the senate Nemesis, who had a celebrated temple at Rhamnus
with two colleagues on a mission to the consul in Attica. (Paus. i. 33. ~ 2, vii. 5. ~ 3; Strab
C. Cassius Longinus, in B.C. 171. (Liv. xliii. 1.) ix. p. 396, &c.; Steph. Byz. s.v.) [L. S.]