1) that celebrated as five times consul, and the conqueror
the conqueror of Syracuse was the first person who of Syracuse.
the conqueror of Syracuse was the first person who of Syracuse.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
).
About the time of the
usurper Magnentius, first appears in history as expedition of Basiliscus [Basiliscus) against
Pruefectus Orientis, in a. n. 340, and is probably Carthage (A. D. 468), he was again in Sicily, act-
the Marcellinus who stands in the Fasti as consul ing with the Romans against the Vandals, when he
the following year.
lle was Comes Sucrarum was assassinated by his allies (Marcellin. Cuspinian.
Luryitionum under Constans, and the most active Cassiodor. Chronica). Genseric, the Vandal
promoter, if not the first contriver of the conspiracy king, who regarded him as his most formidable
by which that prince was destroyed (A. D. 350). enemy, rejoiced exceedingly at his death, and re-
Marcellinus, now holding the rank of Magister peated the saying, that " the Romans had cut off
Officiorum and general in chief of the troops, was their right hand with their left. ” (Damascius,
employed by the usurper to suppress the insurrec- Vita Isidor. apud Phot. Biblioth. Cod. 242. ) Mar-
tion of Nepotianus, on which occasion he displayed cellinus was a heathen (Damascius, l. c. ), a man of
the most savage cruelty towards the wealthier and learning, and the friend of Salustius, the Cynic
more distinguished inhabitants of Rome. He sub philosopher. He was given to divination, in which
sequently headed the embassy despatched to offer he had the reputation of being highly skilled ; and
terms of peace and alliance to Constantius, and is was eminent for statesmanship and military skill,
said to have been seized and detained by the in- of which his establishment and maintenance of his
dignant emperor, but we find him soon afterwards independent position, unstained by any great crime,
at liberty, commanding the armies of the West, is a sufficient proof. He governed bis principality
and he probably perished at the great battle of equitably (Suidas, s. o. Mapkedlivos); and perhaps
Mursa, A. D. 351.
transmitted it to his family ; for his nephew, Julius
Marcellinus is represented by Julian as animated Nepos (Nepos), when driven from the Western
by the most violent and implacable hostility empire by the patrician Orestes (Orestes), re-
towards all the members of the house of Constan- tained some territory and the imperial title in Illy-
tine, and as the master rather than the servant of ricum, where he was assassinated some years after.
Magnentius. [CONSTANS I. ; CONSTANTIUS ; MAG-(GLYCERIUS. ] The ancient authorities for the
NENTIUS ; VETRANIO ; NEPOTIANUS. ) (Codex life of Marcellinus have been cited : of moderns,
Theod. Chron. p. 41 ; Julian, Orat. i. 2 ; Zosim. Gibbon (Decline and Fall, &c. c. 36) and Tille-
ii. 41-54 ; Aurel. Vict. Epil. 41. ) [W. R. ] mont (Hist. des Empéreurs, vol. vi. ) may be con-
MARCELLI'NUS, or MARCELLIA'NUS sulted : but we doubt whether either of them has
(Mapke diavós, Procop. ), a Roman officer, who accurately digested the scattered notices of the an-
acquired for himself in the fifth century an inde cients.
(J. C. M. )
pendent principality in Illyricum. He was a friend MARCELLI'NUS, AMMIANUS. [AM-
of the patrician Aëtius, on whose assassination, MIANUS. )
A. D. 454 (AETIUS], he appears to have renounced MARCELLI'NUS, BAE'BIUS, aedile B. C.
his allegiance to the contemptible emperor Valen- 203, was unjustly and for a ridiculous reason con-
tinian III. (VALENTINIANUS III. AUG. ); and demned to death in that year. (Dion Cass. lxxvi.
having gathered a force, established himself in Dal 8, 9. )
matia and the other parts of Illyricum. (Procop. MARCELLI'NUS, CLAUʻDIUS, an orator
De Bell. Vandal, i. 6. ) After the assassination of who pleaded on the defendant's side at the im-
Valentinian, whether before the election or after peachment of Marius Priscus, proconsul of Africa
the deposition of Avitus is not clear (Avitus), a and replied to Pliny: (Plin. Ep. ii. 11; comp. Juv.
conspiracy of the young nobles was formed under Sat. i. 49, viii. 120. )
[W. B. D. ]
the restless Paeonius to raise Marcellinus to the MARCELLI'NUS COMES, so called on ac-
empire, but without success. (Sidon. A pollin. count of the office of comes, which he held pro-
Epistol. i. 11. ) During the reign of Majorian, bably at Constantinople, was a native of Illyricum,
Marcellinus appears to have recognized his autho and is said to have written “ IV. Libri de Tem-
rity ; and the title of Patricius Occidentis, which porum. Qualitatibus et Positionibus Locorum,"
Marcellinus bore, was perhaps conferred at this which is much praised by Cassiodorus (De Institu-
time. He marched with a body of troops, chiefly tione Divinarım Liter. , c. 7), but which is lost.
or entirely Goths, to the assistance of Majorian He wrote besides a short “Chronicon," which be-
against the Vandals, and was posted in Sicily to gins with the consulship of Ausonius and Olybrius,
defend that island from invasion ; but the patrician or the accession of Theodosius the Great, in A. D.
Ricimer, jealous of Marcellinus, employed his 379, and goes down to the accession of Justin I. ,
superior wealth in bribing his soldiers to desert in 518. This is the original work of Marcellinus
him ; and Marcellinus, fearing some attempt on his as published in the editio princeps by Sconhovius.
life, withdrew in anger from Sicily, which was left | Another writer continued the work till the fourth
2.
3.
3
CAS B. C. 1
6. M. AM
Ca. Col.
9. X. C. MAE
19 M. Volg
11. M. CL Meet
Calci.
LI'N
11. M. Marcel
EVO Marcel
XX. C. Martx
1. M. CE
B 331, tt
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MARCELLUS.
927
MARCELLUS.
p. 616. )
STEMMA MARCELLORUM.
A.
1. M. Claudius Marcellus,
Cos. b. c. 331.
consulate of Justinian the Great, in 534. The execution of above seventy Roman matrons on the
latter part is contained in the edition of Jn. Sir-charge of poisoning. In 327 he was named dic.
mond, Paris, 1619, 8vo. The compilation of Mar- tator, for the purpose of holding the comitia, but
cellinus, who lived probably at the end of the fifth his nomination was set aside by the augurs, on
and in the beginning of the sixth century of our pretence of some informality, a proceeding vehe-
era, is not without some value, and is often quoted mently arraigned by the tribunes of the people,
by modern historians. (Fabric. Bibl. lat. vol ii. who justly attributed the conduct of the augurs to
(W. P. ) their unwillingness to see a plebeian dictator.
MARCELLI'NUS, CORNEʻLIUS LE'N- (Liv
. viii. 18, 23. )
TULUS. (MARCELIUS, CLAUDIUS. )
2. M. CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS, probably a son
MARCELLI'NUS, EGNA'TIUS, a quaestor of the preceding, was consul in B. c. 287 with
in a provincial government whose integrity towards C. Nautius Rutilus. (Fast. Sic. )
the treasury is highly commended by the younger 3. M. CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS, father of No. 4,
Pliny. (Plin. Ep. iv. 12. ) (W. B. D. ] is wholly unknown to us, except that he bore the
MARCELLI'NUS, FA'BIUS, quoted by Lam- same name as his illustrious son. (Fast. Cupit. ;
pridius (Alex. Sev. 48) as the author of a biography Plut. Marc. 1. ) Drumann conjectures that the
of Trajan, and mnked by Vopiscus (Prob. 2) M. Claudius who was delivered up by the Romans
among historians of the second class, such as to the Corsicans for having concluded an igno-
Pharius Maximus, Suetonius Tranquillus, Julius minious treaty is the one in question, and not, as
Capitolinus, and Lampridius. (W. R. ] usually supposed, M. Claudius Glicia [Glicia. ]
MARCELLUS CLAU'DIUS. Marcellus was 4. M. CLAUDIUS M. f. M. N. MARCELLUS, the
the name of the most illustrious plebeian family of most illustrious of all those who bore this name,
the Claudia gens.
Plutarch states (Marc.
1) that celebrated as five times consul, and the conqueror
the conqueror of Syracuse was the first person who of Syracuse. We know very little of his early
bore this cognomen, but this is certainly a mistake. life, and he is a remarkable instance of a man who,
At what time it was first introduced we know not, though his character was chiefly marked by the
but the first person of the name who appears in daring courage and impetuosity of youth, did not
history is the consul of B. c. 331. [No. 1. ) attain to any great distinction until a comparatively
late period of life. The year of his birth is un-
certain, but it may be placed before B. C. 268, as
we are told that he was above sixty years old
when he obtained his fifth consulship. (Plut.
2. M. Claud. Marcellus,
Marc. 28 ; Liv, xxvii. 27. ) Plutarch tells us that
he was trained up in military service from his
earliest youth, so as to have received rather an im-
perfect education in other respects. In war, on
the contrary, he early distinguished himself, es-
pecially by his personal achievements, ever seeking
3. M. CL Marcellus,
6. M. c. Marcellus, single combats with the most daring warriors
among the enemy, and uniformly coming off vic-
torious. On one occasion during the first Punic
Marcellus.
war, he had the opportunity of saving his brother's
life by his personal exertions. (Plut. Marc. 1. 2. )
10. M. CL. Marcellus,
But whatever reputation he may have thus earned
as a soldier, it does not appear to have opened to
14. C. Cl. Marcellus, him the path to public honours until a much later
11. M. CI. Marcellus, 12. C. CI. Marcellus,
period. The first office that we hear of his filling
15. M. CI. Marcellus,
is that of curule aedile, apparently about B. C. 226.
It was while holding this magistracy that he was
compelled to bring a charge against C. Scantilius
Capitolinus, his colleague in the aedileship, for
having offered an insult of the grossest kind to his
son Marcus. [No. 5. ) Capitolinus was convicted,
21. P. Corn. Lentulus Marcel and condemned to pay a heavy fine, the produce of
which was applied by Marcellus to the purchase of
sacred vessels for the temples. (Plut. Marc. 2 ;
Val. Max. vi. 1. $ 7. ) About the same time also,
23. (P. ) Corn. Lentulus Marcel
linus, qu. 8. c. 48. according to Plutarch, he obtained the office of
%0. M. CI. Marcellus A eserninus, 24. P. Corn. Lentulus Marcelo augur, a distinction he probably owed to the de
cided attachment which he manifested through life
Of uncertain Origin.
to the aristocratic party in the state.
26. M. CI. Marcellus,
It was not till the year 2. 22 that Marcellus
Aed. pleb. 8. c. 216.
obtained his first consulship. The war with the
26. M. CI. Marcellus,
Trib. pleb. 8. c. 171.
Gauls, which a few years before had excited so
much alarm at Rome, was then drawing to a close:
the Boians had already submitted, and the Insu-
28. M. CI. Marcellus, ,
brians, terrified at the repeated defeats they had
sustained from the consuls of the preceding year,
P. Furius and C. Flaminius, now sent to sue for
1. M. CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS was consul in peace. Their overtures were, however, rejected,
& G 331, the year that was distinguished for the mainly at the instigation of Marcellus and his
Cos. B. c. 287.
1
3. M. Claud. Marcellus.
1
4. M. Claud. Marcellus,
Cos. quinque. Cos. I. 8. c. 222.
1
Cos. H. C. 196.
B. c. 183.
8. M. CI. Marcellus,
Ca. ter. Cos. I. 8. c. 166.
9. M. CI. Marcellus.
13. C. CI. Marcellus,
aed. cur. 2. c. 91.
Pr. 8. C. 80.
1
Cos. ). c. 51.
Cos. B. C. 49.
Cos. . c 50),
m. Octavia
1
aed. cur. B. c. 23,
m. Julia.
B.
16. M. Claudius Marcellus,
legate h. c. 90.
1
linus, m. Cornelia.
17. M. CI. Marcellus Aeserninus,
• young man B. C. 70.
18. M. CI. Marcellus A eserninus,
qu. 2. c. 48.
1
19. M. CI. Marcellus Aeserninus,
Cos. B. c.
usurper Magnentius, first appears in history as expedition of Basiliscus [Basiliscus) against
Pruefectus Orientis, in a. n. 340, and is probably Carthage (A. D. 468), he was again in Sicily, act-
the Marcellinus who stands in the Fasti as consul ing with the Romans against the Vandals, when he
the following year.
lle was Comes Sucrarum was assassinated by his allies (Marcellin. Cuspinian.
Luryitionum under Constans, and the most active Cassiodor. Chronica). Genseric, the Vandal
promoter, if not the first contriver of the conspiracy king, who regarded him as his most formidable
by which that prince was destroyed (A. D. 350). enemy, rejoiced exceedingly at his death, and re-
Marcellinus, now holding the rank of Magister peated the saying, that " the Romans had cut off
Officiorum and general in chief of the troops, was their right hand with their left. ” (Damascius,
employed by the usurper to suppress the insurrec- Vita Isidor. apud Phot. Biblioth. Cod. 242. ) Mar-
tion of Nepotianus, on which occasion he displayed cellinus was a heathen (Damascius, l. c. ), a man of
the most savage cruelty towards the wealthier and learning, and the friend of Salustius, the Cynic
more distinguished inhabitants of Rome. He sub philosopher. He was given to divination, in which
sequently headed the embassy despatched to offer he had the reputation of being highly skilled ; and
terms of peace and alliance to Constantius, and is was eminent for statesmanship and military skill,
said to have been seized and detained by the in- of which his establishment and maintenance of his
dignant emperor, but we find him soon afterwards independent position, unstained by any great crime,
at liberty, commanding the armies of the West, is a sufficient proof. He governed bis principality
and he probably perished at the great battle of equitably (Suidas, s. o. Mapkedlivos); and perhaps
Mursa, A. D. 351.
transmitted it to his family ; for his nephew, Julius
Marcellinus is represented by Julian as animated Nepos (Nepos), when driven from the Western
by the most violent and implacable hostility empire by the patrician Orestes (Orestes), re-
towards all the members of the house of Constan- tained some territory and the imperial title in Illy-
tine, and as the master rather than the servant of ricum, where he was assassinated some years after.
Magnentius. [CONSTANS I. ; CONSTANTIUS ; MAG-(GLYCERIUS. ] The ancient authorities for the
NENTIUS ; VETRANIO ; NEPOTIANUS. ) (Codex life of Marcellinus have been cited : of moderns,
Theod. Chron. p. 41 ; Julian, Orat. i. 2 ; Zosim. Gibbon (Decline and Fall, &c. c. 36) and Tille-
ii. 41-54 ; Aurel. Vict. Epil. 41. ) [W. R. ] mont (Hist. des Empéreurs, vol. vi. ) may be con-
MARCELLI'NUS, or MARCELLIA'NUS sulted : but we doubt whether either of them has
(Mapke diavós, Procop. ), a Roman officer, who accurately digested the scattered notices of the an-
acquired for himself in the fifth century an inde cients.
(J. C. M. )
pendent principality in Illyricum. He was a friend MARCELLI'NUS, AMMIANUS. [AM-
of the patrician Aëtius, on whose assassination, MIANUS. )
A. D. 454 (AETIUS], he appears to have renounced MARCELLI'NUS, BAE'BIUS, aedile B. C.
his allegiance to the contemptible emperor Valen- 203, was unjustly and for a ridiculous reason con-
tinian III. (VALENTINIANUS III. AUG. ); and demned to death in that year. (Dion Cass. lxxvi.
having gathered a force, established himself in Dal 8, 9. )
matia and the other parts of Illyricum. (Procop. MARCELLI'NUS, CLAUʻDIUS, an orator
De Bell. Vandal, i. 6. ) After the assassination of who pleaded on the defendant's side at the im-
Valentinian, whether before the election or after peachment of Marius Priscus, proconsul of Africa
the deposition of Avitus is not clear (Avitus), a and replied to Pliny: (Plin. Ep. ii. 11; comp. Juv.
conspiracy of the young nobles was formed under Sat. i. 49, viii. 120. )
[W. B. D. ]
the restless Paeonius to raise Marcellinus to the MARCELLI'NUS COMES, so called on ac-
empire, but without success. (Sidon. A pollin. count of the office of comes, which he held pro-
Epistol. i. 11. ) During the reign of Majorian, bably at Constantinople, was a native of Illyricum,
Marcellinus appears to have recognized his autho and is said to have written “ IV. Libri de Tem-
rity ; and the title of Patricius Occidentis, which porum. Qualitatibus et Positionibus Locorum,"
Marcellinus bore, was perhaps conferred at this which is much praised by Cassiodorus (De Institu-
time. He marched with a body of troops, chiefly tione Divinarım Liter. , c. 7), but which is lost.
or entirely Goths, to the assistance of Majorian He wrote besides a short “Chronicon," which be-
against the Vandals, and was posted in Sicily to gins with the consulship of Ausonius and Olybrius,
defend that island from invasion ; but the patrician or the accession of Theodosius the Great, in A. D.
Ricimer, jealous of Marcellinus, employed his 379, and goes down to the accession of Justin I. ,
superior wealth in bribing his soldiers to desert in 518. This is the original work of Marcellinus
him ; and Marcellinus, fearing some attempt on his as published in the editio princeps by Sconhovius.
life, withdrew in anger from Sicily, which was left | Another writer continued the work till the fourth
2.
3.
3
CAS B. C. 1
6. M. AM
Ca. Col.
9. X. C. MAE
19 M. Volg
11. M. CL Meet
Calci.
LI'N
11. M. Marcel
EVO Marcel
XX. C. Martx
1. M. CE
B 331, tt
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MARCELLUS.
927
MARCELLUS.
p. 616. )
STEMMA MARCELLORUM.
A.
1. M. Claudius Marcellus,
Cos. b. c. 331.
consulate of Justinian the Great, in 534. The execution of above seventy Roman matrons on the
latter part is contained in the edition of Jn. Sir-charge of poisoning. In 327 he was named dic.
mond, Paris, 1619, 8vo. The compilation of Mar- tator, for the purpose of holding the comitia, but
cellinus, who lived probably at the end of the fifth his nomination was set aside by the augurs, on
and in the beginning of the sixth century of our pretence of some informality, a proceeding vehe-
era, is not without some value, and is often quoted mently arraigned by the tribunes of the people,
by modern historians. (Fabric. Bibl. lat. vol ii. who justly attributed the conduct of the augurs to
(W. P. ) their unwillingness to see a plebeian dictator.
MARCELLI'NUS, CORNEʻLIUS LE'N- (Liv
. viii. 18, 23. )
TULUS. (MARCELIUS, CLAUDIUS. )
2. M. CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS, probably a son
MARCELLI'NUS, EGNA'TIUS, a quaestor of the preceding, was consul in B. c. 287 with
in a provincial government whose integrity towards C. Nautius Rutilus. (Fast. Sic. )
the treasury is highly commended by the younger 3. M. CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS, father of No. 4,
Pliny. (Plin. Ep. iv. 12. ) (W. B. D. ] is wholly unknown to us, except that he bore the
MARCELLI'NUS, FA'BIUS, quoted by Lam- same name as his illustrious son. (Fast. Cupit. ;
pridius (Alex. Sev. 48) as the author of a biography Plut. Marc. 1. ) Drumann conjectures that the
of Trajan, and mnked by Vopiscus (Prob. 2) M. Claudius who was delivered up by the Romans
among historians of the second class, such as to the Corsicans for having concluded an igno-
Pharius Maximus, Suetonius Tranquillus, Julius minious treaty is the one in question, and not, as
Capitolinus, and Lampridius. (W. R. ] usually supposed, M. Claudius Glicia [Glicia. ]
MARCELLUS CLAU'DIUS. Marcellus was 4. M. CLAUDIUS M. f. M. N. MARCELLUS, the
the name of the most illustrious plebeian family of most illustrious of all those who bore this name,
the Claudia gens.
Plutarch states (Marc.
1) that celebrated as five times consul, and the conqueror
the conqueror of Syracuse was the first person who of Syracuse. We know very little of his early
bore this cognomen, but this is certainly a mistake. life, and he is a remarkable instance of a man who,
At what time it was first introduced we know not, though his character was chiefly marked by the
but the first person of the name who appears in daring courage and impetuosity of youth, did not
history is the consul of B. c. 331. [No. 1. ) attain to any great distinction until a comparatively
late period of life. The year of his birth is un-
certain, but it may be placed before B. C. 268, as
we are told that he was above sixty years old
when he obtained his fifth consulship. (Plut.
2. M. Claud. Marcellus,
Marc. 28 ; Liv, xxvii. 27. ) Plutarch tells us that
he was trained up in military service from his
earliest youth, so as to have received rather an im-
perfect education in other respects. In war, on
the contrary, he early distinguished himself, es-
pecially by his personal achievements, ever seeking
3. M. CL Marcellus,
6. M. c. Marcellus, single combats with the most daring warriors
among the enemy, and uniformly coming off vic-
torious. On one occasion during the first Punic
Marcellus.
war, he had the opportunity of saving his brother's
life by his personal exertions. (Plut. Marc. 1. 2. )
10. M. CL. Marcellus,
But whatever reputation he may have thus earned
as a soldier, it does not appear to have opened to
14. C. Cl. Marcellus, him the path to public honours until a much later
11. M. CI. Marcellus, 12. C. CI. Marcellus,
period. The first office that we hear of his filling
15. M. CI. Marcellus,
is that of curule aedile, apparently about B. C. 226.
It was while holding this magistracy that he was
compelled to bring a charge against C. Scantilius
Capitolinus, his colleague in the aedileship, for
having offered an insult of the grossest kind to his
son Marcus. [No. 5. ) Capitolinus was convicted,
21. P. Corn. Lentulus Marcel and condemned to pay a heavy fine, the produce of
which was applied by Marcellus to the purchase of
sacred vessels for the temples. (Plut. Marc. 2 ;
Val. Max. vi. 1. $ 7. ) About the same time also,
23. (P. ) Corn. Lentulus Marcel
linus, qu. 8. c. 48. according to Plutarch, he obtained the office of
%0. M. CI. Marcellus A eserninus, 24. P. Corn. Lentulus Marcelo augur, a distinction he probably owed to the de
cided attachment which he manifested through life
Of uncertain Origin.
to the aristocratic party in the state.
26. M. CI. Marcellus,
It was not till the year 2. 22 that Marcellus
Aed. pleb. 8. c. 216.
obtained his first consulship. The war with the
26. M. CI. Marcellus,
Trib. pleb. 8. c. 171.
Gauls, which a few years before had excited so
much alarm at Rome, was then drawing to a close:
the Boians had already submitted, and the Insu-
28. M. CI. Marcellus, ,
brians, terrified at the repeated defeats they had
sustained from the consuls of the preceding year,
P. Furius and C. Flaminius, now sent to sue for
1. M. CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS was consul in peace. Their overtures were, however, rejected,
& G 331, the year that was distinguished for the mainly at the instigation of Marcellus and his
Cos. B. c. 287.
1
3. M. Claud. Marcellus.
1
4. M. Claud. Marcellus,
Cos. quinque. Cos. I. 8. c. 222.
1
Cos. H. C. 196.
B. c. 183.
8. M. CI. Marcellus,
Ca. ter. Cos. I. 8. c. 166.
9. M. CI. Marcellus.
13. C. CI. Marcellus,
aed. cur. 2. c. 91.
Pr. 8. C. 80.
1
Cos. ). c. 51.
Cos. B. C. 49.
Cos. . c 50),
m. Octavia
1
aed. cur. B. c. 23,
m. Julia.
B.
16. M. Claudius Marcellus,
legate h. c. 90.
1
linus, m. Cornelia.
17. M. CI. Marcellus Aeserninus,
• young man B. C. 70.
18. M. CI. Marcellus A eserninus,
qu. 2. c. 48.
1
19. M. CI. Marcellus Aeserninus,
Cos. B. c.
