In consequence of his diligence
governor of Africa; and, on the death of this em-
in this department, Niebuhr conceives that he must
peror, A.
governor of Africa; and, on the death of this em-
in this department, Niebuhr conceives that he must
peror, A.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Suidas also calls him the
care of Macedonius, then only Sceuophylax, and Consul (TW vrátw). There are altogether forty-
which he persisted in retaining when the emperor three epigrams by him in the Anthology, most of
wished to recover it. He is honoured as a saint which are of an erotic character, and in an elegant
by the Greek and Latin churches. (Evagrius, H. E. style. (Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 111; Jacobs,
iii. 30, 31, 32; Theodor. Lector. H. E. ii. 12 Anth. Graec. vol. iv. p. 81, p. 215, No. 357. vol.
-36; Theophan. Chronog. pp. 120-138, ed. xiii. p. 641, No. 30, p. 913; Fabric. Bibl. Gract.
Paris, pp. 96—110, ed. Venice, pp. 216–249, ed. vol. iv. p. 481. )
[P. S. ]
Bonn ; Marcellin. Chronicon ; Victor Tunet. Chro- MACER, KEMI’LIUS, of Verona, was senior
nicon ; Liberatus, Breviurium, c. 19; Le Quien, to Ovid, and died in Asia, B. c. 16, three years
Oriens Christianus, vol. i. col. 220; Tillemont, after Virgil, as we learn from the Eusebian Chro-
Mémoires, vol. xvi. p. 663, &c. )
nicle. He wrote a poem or poems upon birds,
5. The Consul, author of the epigrams. [See snakes, and medicinal plants, in imitation, it would
below. ]
appear, of the Theriaca of Nicander. His produc-
6. CritOPHAGUS, or CRITHOPHAGUS. (ó Kpido- tions, of which not one word remains, are thus com-
pásyns. ) Macedonius was a celebrated ascetic, con- memorated in the Tristia :-
temporary with the earlier years of Theodoret, who
was intimately acquainted with him, and has left
Saepe suas volucres legit mihi grandior aevo,
an ample record of him in his Philotheus or His-
Quaeque necet serpens, quae juvet herba,
Macer. '
toria Religiosa (c. 13). He led an ascetic life in
the mountains, apparently in the neighbourhood of The work now extant, entitled “ Aemilius Macer
Antioch ; and dwelt forty-five years in a deep pit de Herbarum Virtutibus," belongs to the middle
(for he would not use either tent or hut). When ages. Of this piece there is an old translation,
he was growing old, he yielded to the intreaties of “ Macer's Herbal, practys'd by Doctor Lynacro.
his friends, and built himself a hut ; and was after- | Translated out of Laten into Englysshe, which
wards further prevailed upon to occupy a small house. I shewynge theyr Operacyons and Vertues set in the
He lived twenty-five years after quitting his cave, so margent of this Boke, to the entent you myght
that his ascetic life extended to seventy years ; but know theyr vertues. ” There is no date ; but it
his age at his death is not known. His habitual diet
was printed by “Robt. Wyer, dwellynge at the
was barley, bruised and moistened with water, from sygne of Saynt Johan evangelyste, in Seynt Mar-
which he acquired his name of Crithophagus, " the tyns Parysshe, in the byshop of Norwytche rentes,
barley-eater. " He was also called, from his dwell. besyde Charynge Crosse. "
ing-place, Gouba, or Guba, a Syriac word denoting 2. We must carefully distinguish from Aemilius
a“ pit” or “ well. " He was ordained priest by Macer of Verona, Macer who was one of the Latin
Flavian of Antioch, who was obliged to use artifice Homeristae, and who must have been alive in
to induce him to leave his mountain abode ; and A. D. 12, since he is addressed by Ovid in the
ordained him, without his being aware of it, during 2d book of the Epistles from Pontus (Ep. x. ), and
the celebration of the eucharist. When informed is there spoken of as an old travelling companion,
of what had occurred, Macedonius, imagining that his literary undertaking being clearly described in
his ordination would oblige him to give up his the lines :-
solitude and his barley diet, flew into a passion ill
becoming his sanctity ; and after pouring out the
“ Tu canis aeterno quidquid restabat Homero,
bitterest reproaches against the patriarch and the
Ne careant summa Troica bella manu ;"
priests, he took his walking staff, for he was now while elsewhere (ex Pont. iv. 16. 6) he is desig-
an old man,
and drove them away. He was one nated as “ Iliacus Macer. " We gather from Appu-
of the monks who resorted to Antioch, to intercede leius that the title of his work was
* Bellum
with the emperor's officers for the citizens of Trojanum. ” (Hieron. in Chron, Euseb. Ol. cxci. ;
Antioch after the great insurrection (A. D. 387), in Ov. Trist. iv. 10. 43 ; Quintilian. vi. 3. & 96,
which they had overthrown the statues of the x. 1. $ 56, 87, xii. 11. $ 27; Appuleius, de Ortho
emperor.
His admirable plea is given by Theo- graph. § 18; Maffei, Verona Illustrata, ii. 19;
doret. (H. E. v. 19. ) Chrysostom notices one Broukhus. ad Tibull. ii. 6 ; Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat.
part of the plea of Macedonius, but does not men- Min. vol. iv. p. 579. )
66
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MACER.
883
MACER. 1
&
p. 328. )
: If the Macer named by Quinctilian in his sixth nalist and orator, was the father of C. Licinius
book be the same with either of the above, we Calvus (CalvUS), and must have been born about
must conclude that one of them published a collec- B. c. 110. He was quaestor probably in B. c. 78,
tion of " Tetrasticha," which were tumed aside was tribune of the plebs B. c. 73, was subsequently
from their true meaning, and pieced together by raised to the praetorship and became governor of a
Ovid, so as to form an invective on good-for-nothing province. He was distinguished by his hostility
poets, “ Adjuvant urbanitatem et versus commode towards C. Rabirius, whom he charged (R. C. 73)
positi, seu toti, ut sunt (quod adeo facile est, ut with having been accessory to the death of Satur-
Ovidius ex tetrastichon Macri carmine librum in ninus, an offence for which the same individual
malos poetas composuerit)," &a (W. R. ] was brought to trial a second time ten years after-
MACER, AEMI'LIUS, a Roman jurist, who wards. Macer himself was impeached by Cicero,
wrote after Ulpian and Paulus, and lived in the A. D. 66, when the latter was pretor, under the
reign of Alexander Severus. (Dig. 49. tit. 13. ) law De Repetundis; and finding that, notwithstand-
He wrote several works, extracts from which are ing the influence of Crassus, with whom he was
given in the Digest. The most important of closely allied, the verdict was against him, he in-
them were, De Appellationibas, De Re Militari, stantly committed suicide, before all the forms
De Officio Praesidis, De Publicis Judiciis, and were completed, and thus saved his family from
Ad Legem de Vicesima Hereditatum. (Zimmern, the dishonour and loss which would have been en-
Geschichte des Römischen Privatrechts, vol. i. part i. tailed upon them had he been regularly sentenced.
This is the account given by Valerius Maximus,
MAĆER, BAE'BIT'S. 1. One of the consuls and it does not differ in substance from that pre-
Buffecti A. D. 101, was consul designatus when the served by Plutarch.
younger Pliny pleaded the cause of Bassus before His Annales, or Rerum Romanarum Libri, or
the senate. (Plin. Ep. iv. 9. 9. 16. ). He was Historiae, as they are variously designated by the
praefectus urbi at the time of Trajan's death, A. D. grammarians,
are frequently referred to with respect
117. (Spart. Hadr. 5. ) Whether he or Calpur by Livy and Dionysius. They commenced with the
nius Macer is the Macer to whom Pliny addresses very origin of the city, and extended to twenty-
three of his letters (üi. 5, v. 18, vi. 24), is un- one books at least; but whether he brought down
certain.
the record of events to his own time it is impos.
2. Praefectus praetorio in the reign of Valerian. sible for us to determine, since the quotations now
(Vopisc. Aurel. 12. )
extant belong to the earlier ages only. He appears
MACER, CALPU'RNIUS, governor of a to have paid great attention to the history of the
Roman province at no great distance from that of constitution, and to have consulted ancient monu-
Bithynia, at the time when Pliny administered the ments, especially the Libri Lintei preserved in the
latter, A. D. 103, 104. (Plin. Ep. 1. 51, 69, 81. ) temple of Juno Moneta, noting down carefully the
[See MACER, BAEBIUS. ]
points in which they were at variance with the
MACER, CLOʻDIUS, was appointed by Nero received accounts.
In consequence of his diligence
governor of Africa; and, on the death of this em-
in this department, Niebuhr conceives that he must
peror, A. D. 68, he raised the standard of revolt, have been more trustworthy than any of his pre-
and laid claim to the throne. He took this step at decessors, and supposes that the numerous speeches
the instigation of Calvia Crispinilla, whom Tacitus with which he was fond of diversifying his nar-
calls the teacher of Nero in all voluptuousness, and rative afforded materials for Dionysius and Livy.
who crossed over to Africa to persuade him to re Cicero speaks very coldly, and even contemptuously,
volt ; and it was also at her advice that he pre of his merits, both as a writer and a speaker, but
vented the corn-ships from going to Rome, in order some allowance must perhaps be made in this case
to produce a famine in the city. (CRISPINILLA. ) for personal enmity.
As soon as Galba was seated on the throne, he A few words from an oration, Pro Tuscis, have
caused Macer to be executed by the procurator, been preserved by Priscian (1. 8, p. 502, ed.
Trebonius Garucianus. During the short time that Krehl), and a single sentence from an Epistola ad
Macer exercised the sovereign power in Africa, he Senatum, by Nonius Marcellus (s. r. contendere).
had become hated for his cruelties and extortions. (Pigh. Ann. ad ann. 675 ; Sall. Histor. iii. 22, p.
(Tac. Hist. i. 7, 11, 37, 73, ii. 97, iv. 49; Suet. 252, ed. Gerlach ; Cic. ad Att. i. 4, pro Rubir. 2,
Galb. 11; Plut. Galb. 6, 15. ) The head of Macer de Leg. i 2, Brut. 67 ; Val. Max. ix. 12. $ 7;
occurs on coins which he had struck, from which Plut. Cic. 9; Macrob. i. 10, 13; Censorin. de Die
we learn that his praenomen was Lucius. (Eckhel, Nat. 20 ; Solin. 8; Non. Marcell. s. vv. clypeus, con-
vol. vi. p. 288, &c. )
tendere, luculentum, lues, patibulum ; Diomed. i. p.
366, ed. Putsch ; Priscian. vi. 11, p. 256, x. 6, p.
496, ed. Krehl ; in the last passage we must read
AZPROTO
Licinius for Aemilius; Liv. iv. 7, 20, 23, vii. 9,
ix. 38, 46, 1. 9; Dionys. ii. 52, iv. 6, v. 47, 74,
vi. 11, vii. 1 ; Auctor, de Orig. Gent. Rom. 19,
23; Lachmann, de Fontibus Historiar. T. Livii
Comment. prior, § 21 ; Krause, Vitae et Frag.
Hist. Rom. p. 237 ; Meyer, Orat. Rom. Frag. 7.
385, 2nd ed. ; Weichert, Poet. Lat. Reliquiae, p.
92. )
(W. R. ]
MACER, HERE'NNIUS, incurred the anger 2. An account of his son, who bore the agnomen
of the emperor Caligula, because he saluted him only Calvus, and who is frequently described as C.
by his praenomen Caius. (Senec. de Const. Sap. Licinius Calvus, is given under Calvus.
18. )
The annexed coin probably refers to No. 1.
MACER, C. LICI'NIUS. 1. A Roman an- | The obverse represents a youthful head, and
OCCO
acom
groente
PRAE
ඔබ
ACE
SIC
RICAS
COIN OF CLODIUS MACER.
3 1 2
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884
MACERINUS.
MACHANIDAS.
horses.
M.
the Abacana set op
representing Pelopoe
w Machar da. (Pol
6; Lit. uri. 30,
10.
)
MACHAON (Ma
Epeione (Hom. IL
Pyth
. ii. 14), or, act
(Espan. Feb. 97),
son of Poseidon. (Eu
was married to Anti
(Pass it. 30. $?
father of Garraous
Alexanes, Sphyrus
11. $ 6. ir. 38. § 6;
Pal
. 81. ) In the T
the surgeon of the
COIN OF C. LICINIUS MACER
а
the reverse Pallas in a chariot, drawn by four first held the census of the people in a public villa
of the Campus Martius. It is also related of them
that they removed Mam. Aemilius Mamercinus
from his tribe, and reduced him to the condition of
an aerarian, because he had proposed and carried a
bill limiting the time during which the censorship
was to be held from five years to a year and a
half. (Liv. iv. 22, 24, ix. 33, 34. )
L. CINIVSLE
4. PROCULUS GEGANIOS MACER IN US, probably
MACED
brother of No. 3, was consul B. C. 440, with L.
Menenius Lanatus. (Liv. iv. 12; Diod. xii. 36. )
For the events of the year, see LANATUS, No. 4.
MACER, MA'RCIUS, was a captain of gla- 5. L. GEGANIUS MACERINUS, consular tribune
diators in Otho's army, A. D. 69. Ascending the B. C. 378. (Liv, vi. 31 ; Diod. xv. 57. )
stream of the Po with a detachment of the Ra- 6. M. GEGANIUS MACERINUS, consular tribune
venna fleet, Macer drove the Vitellians from the B. C. 367. (Liv. vi. 42. )
left bank of the river, but shortly before the final MACHAEREUS (Maxaipeus), i. e. the swords-
defeat of his party at Bedriacum was himself re- man, a son of Daetas of Delphi, who is said to
pulsed, and displaced by Otho from his command. have slain Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, in
Macer's name was erased by Vitellius from the list a quarrel about the sacrificial mcat at Delphi.
of supplementary consuls for A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. (Strab. ix. p. 421 ; Pind. Nem. vii. 62, with the
ii. 23, 35, 36, 71. ) Plutarch (Oth. 10) mentions scholiast. )
[L.
care of Macedonius, then only Sceuophylax, and Consul (TW vrátw). There are altogether forty-
which he persisted in retaining when the emperor three epigrams by him in the Anthology, most of
wished to recover it. He is honoured as a saint which are of an erotic character, and in an elegant
by the Greek and Latin churches. (Evagrius, H. E. style. (Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 111; Jacobs,
iii. 30, 31, 32; Theodor. Lector. H. E. ii. 12 Anth. Graec. vol. iv. p. 81, p. 215, No. 357. vol.
-36; Theophan. Chronog. pp. 120-138, ed. xiii. p. 641, No. 30, p. 913; Fabric. Bibl. Gract.
Paris, pp. 96—110, ed. Venice, pp. 216–249, ed. vol. iv. p. 481. )
[P. S. ]
Bonn ; Marcellin. Chronicon ; Victor Tunet. Chro- MACER, KEMI’LIUS, of Verona, was senior
nicon ; Liberatus, Breviurium, c. 19; Le Quien, to Ovid, and died in Asia, B. c. 16, three years
Oriens Christianus, vol. i. col. 220; Tillemont, after Virgil, as we learn from the Eusebian Chro-
Mémoires, vol. xvi. p. 663, &c. )
nicle. He wrote a poem or poems upon birds,
5. The Consul, author of the epigrams. [See snakes, and medicinal plants, in imitation, it would
below. ]
appear, of the Theriaca of Nicander. His produc-
6. CritOPHAGUS, or CRITHOPHAGUS. (ó Kpido- tions, of which not one word remains, are thus com-
pásyns. ) Macedonius was a celebrated ascetic, con- memorated in the Tristia :-
temporary with the earlier years of Theodoret, who
was intimately acquainted with him, and has left
Saepe suas volucres legit mihi grandior aevo,
an ample record of him in his Philotheus or His-
Quaeque necet serpens, quae juvet herba,
Macer. '
toria Religiosa (c. 13). He led an ascetic life in
the mountains, apparently in the neighbourhood of The work now extant, entitled “ Aemilius Macer
Antioch ; and dwelt forty-five years in a deep pit de Herbarum Virtutibus," belongs to the middle
(for he would not use either tent or hut). When ages. Of this piece there is an old translation,
he was growing old, he yielded to the intreaties of “ Macer's Herbal, practys'd by Doctor Lynacro.
his friends, and built himself a hut ; and was after- | Translated out of Laten into Englysshe, which
wards further prevailed upon to occupy a small house. I shewynge theyr Operacyons and Vertues set in the
He lived twenty-five years after quitting his cave, so margent of this Boke, to the entent you myght
that his ascetic life extended to seventy years ; but know theyr vertues. ” There is no date ; but it
his age at his death is not known. His habitual diet
was printed by “Robt. Wyer, dwellynge at the
was barley, bruised and moistened with water, from sygne of Saynt Johan evangelyste, in Seynt Mar-
which he acquired his name of Crithophagus, " the tyns Parysshe, in the byshop of Norwytche rentes,
barley-eater. " He was also called, from his dwell. besyde Charynge Crosse. "
ing-place, Gouba, or Guba, a Syriac word denoting 2. We must carefully distinguish from Aemilius
a“ pit” or “ well. " He was ordained priest by Macer of Verona, Macer who was one of the Latin
Flavian of Antioch, who was obliged to use artifice Homeristae, and who must have been alive in
to induce him to leave his mountain abode ; and A. D. 12, since he is addressed by Ovid in the
ordained him, without his being aware of it, during 2d book of the Epistles from Pontus (Ep. x. ), and
the celebration of the eucharist. When informed is there spoken of as an old travelling companion,
of what had occurred, Macedonius, imagining that his literary undertaking being clearly described in
his ordination would oblige him to give up his the lines :-
solitude and his barley diet, flew into a passion ill
becoming his sanctity ; and after pouring out the
“ Tu canis aeterno quidquid restabat Homero,
bitterest reproaches against the patriarch and the
Ne careant summa Troica bella manu ;"
priests, he took his walking staff, for he was now while elsewhere (ex Pont. iv. 16. 6) he is desig-
an old man,
and drove them away. He was one nated as “ Iliacus Macer. " We gather from Appu-
of the monks who resorted to Antioch, to intercede leius that the title of his work was
* Bellum
with the emperor's officers for the citizens of Trojanum. ” (Hieron. in Chron, Euseb. Ol. cxci. ;
Antioch after the great insurrection (A. D. 387), in Ov. Trist. iv. 10. 43 ; Quintilian. vi. 3. & 96,
which they had overthrown the statues of the x. 1. $ 56, 87, xii. 11. $ 27; Appuleius, de Ortho
emperor.
His admirable plea is given by Theo- graph. § 18; Maffei, Verona Illustrata, ii. 19;
doret. (H. E. v. 19. ) Chrysostom notices one Broukhus. ad Tibull. ii. 6 ; Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat.
part of the plea of Macedonius, but does not men- Min. vol. iv. p. 579. )
66
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MACER.
883
MACER. 1
&
p. 328. )
: If the Macer named by Quinctilian in his sixth nalist and orator, was the father of C. Licinius
book be the same with either of the above, we Calvus (CalvUS), and must have been born about
must conclude that one of them published a collec- B. c. 110. He was quaestor probably in B. c. 78,
tion of " Tetrasticha," which were tumed aside was tribune of the plebs B. c. 73, was subsequently
from their true meaning, and pieced together by raised to the praetorship and became governor of a
Ovid, so as to form an invective on good-for-nothing province. He was distinguished by his hostility
poets, “ Adjuvant urbanitatem et versus commode towards C. Rabirius, whom he charged (R. C. 73)
positi, seu toti, ut sunt (quod adeo facile est, ut with having been accessory to the death of Satur-
Ovidius ex tetrastichon Macri carmine librum in ninus, an offence for which the same individual
malos poetas composuerit)," &a (W. R. ] was brought to trial a second time ten years after-
MACER, AEMI'LIUS, a Roman jurist, who wards. Macer himself was impeached by Cicero,
wrote after Ulpian and Paulus, and lived in the A. D. 66, when the latter was pretor, under the
reign of Alexander Severus. (Dig. 49. tit. 13. ) law De Repetundis; and finding that, notwithstand-
He wrote several works, extracts from which are ing the influence of Crassus, with whom he was
given in the Digest. The most important of closely allied, the verdict was against him, he in-
them were, De Appellationibas, De Re Militari, stantly committed suicide, before all the forms
De Officio Praesidis, De Publicis Judiciis, and were completed, and thus saved his family from
Ad Legem de Vicesima Hereditatum. (Zimmern, the dishonour and loss which would have been en-
Geschichte des Römischen Privatrechts, vol. i. part i. tailed upon them had he been regularly sentenced.
This is the account given by Valerius Maximus,
MAĆER, BAE'BIT'S. 1. One of the consuls and it does not differ in substance from that pre-
Buffecti A. D. 101, was consul designatus when the served by Plutarch.
younger Pliny pleaded the cause of Bassus before His Annales, or Rerum Romanarum Libri, or
the senate. (Plin. Ep. iv. 9. 9. 16. ). He was Historiae, as they are variously designated by the
praefectus urbi at the time of Trajan's death, A. D. grammarians,
are frequently referred to with respect
117. (Spart. Hadr. 5. ) Whether he or Calpur by Livy and Dionysius. They commenced with the
nius Macer is the Macer to whom Pliny addresses very origin of the city, and extended to twenty-
three of his letters (üi. 5, v. 18, vi. 24), is un- one books at least; but whether he brought down
certain.
the record of events to his own time it is impos.
2. Praefectus praetorio in the reign of Valerian. sible for us to determine, since the quotations now
(Vopisc. Aurel. 12. )
extant belong to the earlier ages only. He appears
MACER, CALPU'RNIUS, governor of a to have paid great attention to the history of the
Roman province at no great distance from that of constitution, and to have consulted ancient monu-
Bithynia, at the time when Pliny administered the ments, especially the Libri Lintei preserved in the
latter, A. D. 103, 104. (Plin. Ep. 1. 51, 69, 81. ) temple of Juno Moneta, noting down carefully the
[See MACER, BAEBIUS. ]
points in which they were at variance with the
MACER, CLOʻDIUS, was appointed by Nero received accounts.
In consequence of his diligence
governor of Africa; and, on the death of this em-
in this department, Niebuhr conceives that he must
peror, A. D. 68, he raised the standard of revolt, have been more trustworthy than any of his pre-
and laid claim to the throne. He took this step at decessors, and supposes that the numerous speeches
the instigation of Calvia Crispinilla, whom Tacitus with which he was fond of diversifying his nar-
calls the teacher of Nero in all voluptuousness, and rative afforded materials for Dionysius and Livy.
who crossed over to Africa to persuade him to re Cicero speaks very coldly, and even contemptuously,
volt ; and it was also at her advice that he pre of his merits, both as a writer and a speaker, but
vented the corn-ships from going to Rome, in order some allowance must perhaps be made in this case
to produce a famine in the city. (CRISPINILLA. ) for personal enmity.
As soon as Galba was seated on the throne, he A few words from an oration, Pro Tuscis, have
caused Macer to be executed by the procurator, been preserved by Priscian (1. 8, p. 502, ed.
Trebonius Garucianus. During the short time that Krehl), and a single sentence from an Epistola ad
Macer exercised the sovereign power in Africa, he Senatum, by Nonius Marcellus (s. r. contendere).
had become hated for his cruelties and extortions. (Pigh. Ann. ad ann. 675 ; Sall. Histor. iii. 22, p.
(Tac. Hist. i. 7, 11, 37, 73, ii. 97, iv. 49; Suet. 252, ed. Gerlach ; Cic. ad Att. i. 4, pro Rubir. 2,
Galb. 11; Plut. Galb. 6, 15. ) The head of Macer de Leg. i 2, Brut. 67 ; Val. Max. ix. 12. $ 7;
occurs on coins which he had struck, from which Plut. Cic. 9; Macrob. i. 10, 13; Censorin. de Die
we learn that his praenomen was Lucius. (Eckhel, Nat. 20 ; Solin. 8; Non. Marcell. s. vv. clypeus, con-
vol. vi. p. 288, &c. )
tendere, luculentum, lues, patibulum ; Diomed. i. p.
366, ed. Putsch ; Priscian. vi. 11, p. 256, x. 6, p.
496, ed. Krehl ; in the last passage we must read
AZPROTO
Licinius for Aemilius; Liv. iv. 7, 20, 23, vii. 9,
ix. 38, 46, 1. 9; Dionys. ii. 52, iv. 6, v. 47, 74,
vi. 11, vii. 1 ; Auctor, de Orig. Gent. Rom. 19,
23; Lachmann, de Fontibus Historiar. T. Livii
Comment. prior, § 21 ; Krause, Vitae et Frag.
Hist. Rom. p. 237 ; Meyer, Orat. Rom. Frag. 7.
385, 2nd ed. ; Weichert, Poet. Lat. Reliquiae, p.
92. )
(W. R. ]
MACER, HERE'NNIUS, incurred the anger 2. An account of his son, who bore the agnomen
of the emperor Caligula, because he saluted him only Calvus, and who is frequently described as C.
by his praenomen Caius. (Senec. de Const. Sap. Licinius Calvus, is given under Calvus.
18. )
The annexed coin probably refers to No. 1.
MACER, C. LICI'NIUS. 1. A Roman an- | The obverse represents a youthful head, and
OCCO
acom
groente
PRAE
ඔබ
ACE
SIC
RICAS
COIN OF CLODIUS MACER.
3 1 2
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884
MACERINUS.
MACHANIDAS.
horses.
M.
the Abacana set op
representing Pelopoe
w Machar da. (Pol
6; Lit. uri. 30,
10.
)
MACHAON (Ma
Epeione (Hom. IL
Pyth
. ii. 14), or, act
(Espan. Feb. 97),
son of Poseidon. (Eu
was married to Anti
(Pass it. 30. $?
father of Garraous
Alexanes, Sphyrus
11. $ 6. ir. 38. § 6;
Pal
. 81. ) In the T
the surgeon of the
COIN OF C. LICINIUS MACER
а
the reverse Pallas in a chariot, drawn by four first held the census of the people in a public villa
of the Campus Martius. It is also related of them
that they removed Mam. Aemilius Mamercinus
from his tribe, and reduced him to the condition of
an aerarian, because he had proposed and carried a
bill limiting the time during which the censorship
was to be held from five years to a year and a
half. (Liv. iv. 22, 24, ix. 33, 34. )
L. CINIVSLE
4. PROCULUS GEGANIOS MACER IN US, probably
MACED
brother of No. 3, was consul B. C. 440, with L.
Menenius Lanatus. (Liv. iv. 12; Diod. xii. 36. )
For the events of the year, see LANATUS, No. 4.
MACER, MA'RCIUS, was a captain of gla- 5. L. GEGANIUS MACERINUS, consular tribune
diators in Otho's army, A. D. 69. Ascending the B. C. 378. (Liv, vi. 31 ; Diod. xv. 57. )
stream of the Po with a detachment of the Ra- 6. M. GEGANIUS MACERINUS, consular tribune
venna fleet, Macer drove the Vitellians from the B. C. 367. (Liv. vi. 42. )
left bank of the river, but shortly before the final MACHAEREUS (Maxaipeus), i. e. the swords-
defeat of his party at Bedriacum was himself re- man, a son of Daetas of Delphi, who is said to
pulsed, and displaced by Otho from his command. have slain Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, in
Macer's name was erased by Vitellius from the list a quarrel about the sacrificial mcat at Delphi.
of supplementary consuls for A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. (Strab. ix. p. 421 ; Pind. Nem. vii. 62, with the
ii. 23, 35, 36, 71. ) Plutarch (Oth. 10) mentions scholiast. )
[L.
