21, after the death of
a synod at Constantinople, declared against the her brother, Marcellus (No.
a synod at Constantinople, declared against the her brother, Marcellus (No.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
(CHRYSOLORAS.
]
several districts in the Peloponnesus. The latter 6. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 1. [No. 4. ]
part of the reign of Manuel was quiet. Still 7. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 2. There were two
hoping that the Western princes would finally Manuels patriarchs of Constantinople, Manuel I.
unite for the purpose of putting an end to the Charitopulus (No. 4. ) and Manuel II. , the subject
Turkish dominion and restoring the Greek empire, of the present article. Cave, Oudin, and others,
he sent ambassadors to the Council of Constance seem to have confounded the two, for they state
with seeming instructions to effect a union of the that Manuel Charitopulus succeeded Germanus II.
Latin and Greek churches. But his real intentions (GERMANUS, No. 8) in a. d. 1240. Charitopulus
were quite different ; he never earnestly wished was the predecessor of Germanus, not his successor;
for such an union ; and Phranza (ii. 13) was wit- Manuel II. was his successor, though not imme
ness when the emperor openly said that he nego- diately, for the brief patriarchate of Methodius II.
tiated with the Western princes for no other and a vacancy in the see, of considerable but un-
purpose but causing fear to the Turks. This certain length, intervened. Manuel's death is
was well known in Europe; and while Greek distinctly fixed as having occurred two months
fickleness and duplicity prevented a cordial under- before that of the emperor Joannes Ducas Vatatzes
standing between the East and the West, it be- | (JOANNES III. ), which occurred 30th Oct. A. D.
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MANUEL
925
MARCELLA.
1255. The duration of his patriarchate is fixed streets. In A. p. 1283, after the accession of Andro-
by Nicephorus Callisti, according to Le Quien, at nicus II. Palacologus, son of Michael, who pursued
eleven years, but the table in the Protrozticon of with respect to the union of the churches an oppo-
Labbe assigns to him fourteen years ; so that A. D. site policy to that of his father, Holobolus appeared
1241 or 1244 will be assumed as the year of his in the synod of Constintinople, in which Joannes
accession, according as one or the other of these Veccus (VeccUS) was deposed from the patriarchate
authorities is preferred. Manuel held, before his of Constantinople, and he took part in the subse-
patriarchate, a high place among the ecclesiastics of quent disputations with that chief of the Latinizing
the Byzantine court then fixed at Nice, and was party. Little else is known of Holobulus (Georg.
reputed a man of piety and holiness“ though Pachym. de Mich. Pulucol. iii. 11, iv. 14, v. 12,
married," and of mild and gentle disposition, but 20 ; De Andron. Palueol. i. 8, 34, 35. )
by no means learned. The threc Sententiae Sy- Holobolus wrote Versus Politici in Michaclem
nodales of the patriarch Manuel, given in the Jus Palaeoloyum, cited in the Glossurium in Scriptores
Gracco-Romanum, undoubtedly belong to this pa-Med. et Infim. Gruecitulis of Ducange, s. r. 'Prítwp.
triarch, not to Charitopulus (see No. 4], for the These are probably the same verses which are
second of them, De Translatione Episcoporum, is extant in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, under
cxpressly dated July, Indict. 8, A. M. 6758, era of the title of Versus Politici XXV. de Vunilule om-
Constant. = A. D. 1250. Some works in MS. , nium Rerum. 2. The 'Epunveial, Scholia in Arum
especially a letter to pope Innocent, by “ Manuel Dosiadae, published by Valcknaer, in the Diutrile
Patriarcha CPol. ,” probably belong to the subject in Euripidis perditorum Drumatum Reliquias (c.
of this article. (Georg. Acropolit. Annal. c. 42, xii. ), subjoined to his editio. of the Hippolytus of
51, 52, 53, pp. 39, 54, 56, 57, ed. Paris, pp. 77, Euripides (4to. Leyden, 1768), may be probably
107, 110, 112, ed. Bonn ; Ephraem. de Joan. ascribed to our Holobolus. But the Apologiu ad
Duca. Vatatze, vs. 8860; De Theod. Duca. Lascare, Erolemata Francisci Ordinis Praedicatorum Mo-
vs. 8922; De Patriarch. CP. vs. 10,267, &c. ; Le nuchi, published, though in a mutilated form, in
Quien, Oriens Christ. vol. i. col. 279; Cave and the Varia Sacra of Le Moyne (vol. i. pp. 268—293),
Oudin, as in No. 4; Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. appears to be by a later writer described as “Manuel
p. 668. )
Rhetor," whom Cave places A. D. 1500, and whic
8. HOLOBOLUS ('Olówhos), a Byzantine writer lived for many years after that time. (Fabric.
of the latter part of the thirteenth century. When Biblioth. Gruec. vol. xi. p. 669 ; Cave, Hist. Litt.
the ambitious Michael Palaeologus [MICHAEL Appendix, ad ann. 1500, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 224. )
VIII. ] deprived his youthful colleague Joannes 9. MOSCHOPULUS. (MOSCHOPULUS. )
Lascaris (JOANNES IV. ) of his eyes and his share 10. PHILE. [PHILE. )
in the empire, and sent him into banishment about 11. Rhetor. (No. 8. )
A. D. 1261 or 1262, Holobolus, then a lad pur- 12. STRABOROMANUS, a Byzantine writer of
suing his studies, was cruelly mutilated by order the time of Alexius Comnenus. He wrote on astro-
of Michael, his nose and lips being cut off, because logy, and some of his works are extant in MS.
he had expressed grief at the treatment of the (Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. xi. p. 670. ) (J. C. M. ]
young emperor. The mutilated lad was confined MA'RATHON (Mapalov), the hero eponymus
to the monastery of the Precursor (TOÙ a pod póuov), of the Attic town of Marathon. According to
where having excellent abilities and good oppor- some traditions, he was a son of Epopeus ; and
tunity, he pursued his studies with such success, being driven from Peloponnesus by the violence of
that the patriarch Germanus III. of Constanti- his father, he went to Attica. After his father's
nople (GERMANUS, No. 8], shortly after his ac- death, he returned to Peloponnesus, divided his
cession to the patriarchate, A. D. 1267, procured inheritance between his two sons, and then settled
him to be appointed master of the school for the in Attica. (Paus. ii. 1. § 1, 15. Ø 4, 32, § 4. )
instruction of young ecclesiastics, and prevailed According to others, Marathon was an Arcadian,
upon the emperor to remit his punishment, and and took part with the Tyndaridae in their expe-
allow him to quit the monastery. Tne patriarch dition against Attica, and in pursuance of an
also conferred upon him the ecclesiastical office of oracle, devoted himself to death before the beginning
rhetor, reader and expounder of the Scriptures, of the battle. (Plut. Thes. 32 ; comp. Philostr.
and showed him much kindness. When the em- Vit. Soph. ii. 7. )
[L. S. ]
peror formed the design of a reconciliation of the MA'RATHÚS, JU’LIUS, a freedman of the
Greek and Latin churches, Holobolus was one of emperor Augustus, who wrote an account of the
the ecclesiastics of whose counsels he availed him life of his master. (Suet. Aug. 79, 94. )
self. Holobolus, however, did not enter very MARCELLA. 1. Daughter of C. Marcellus,
heartily into the business; and, having been hurt C. F. , and Octavia, the sister of Augristus. She
by a slight offered him by the emperor, he changed was married, first to M. Vipsanius Agrippa, who
sides, and when called upon to give his opinion in separated from her in B. c.
21, after the death of
a synod at Constantinople, declared against the her brother, Marcellus (No. 15), in order to marry
plan of reconciliation altogether. This drew from Julia, the daughter of Augustus. After this her
the emperor, who was present, an outburst of re- uncle gave her in marriage, secondly, to Julus
proach; to which the angry ecclesiastic gave so Antonius, the son of the triumvir (Antonius, No.
blunt and undaunted a reply, that he was near 19], by whom she had a son Lucius. After his
being torn to pieces by the courtiers who surrounded death she married, thirdly, Sext. Appuleius, who
the emperor.
He took sinctuary in the great was consul in A. d. 14, by whom she had a daughter,
church, but being taken from thence, was banished Appuleia Varilia. (Plut. Anton. 87; Dion Cass.
to the monastery of Hyacinthus at Nice, A. D. liii. 1, liv, 6; Vell. Pat. ii. 93, 100; Suet. Aug.
1273. Before long he was brought back to Con- 63 ; Tac. Ann. ii. 50. )
stantinople, cruelly beaten, and paraded with 2. Sister of the preceding. (Plut. Ant. 87 ;
various circumstances of ignominy through the Suet. Aug. 63. )
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MARCELLA, was a wiſe or mistress of the defenceless, and returned apparently to Illyricum.
poet Martial, to whom he has addressed two epi. This was probably in A. D. 461 or 462, after Majo
grams (xii. 21, 31). She was a native of Spain, rian's death. (Priscus, Historia, apud Excerpta do
and brought him as her dowry an estate. As Legationibus Gentium ad Romanos, c. 14, and Ro
Martial was married previously to Cleopatra (En. manorum ad Gentes, c. 10. ) The Western empire,
iv. 22, xi. 43, 104), he espoused Marcella probably which had passed into the hands of Severus, now
after his return to Spain about A. D. 96. (W. B. D. ) apprehended an attack from Marcellinus, but he
MARCELLI'NUS, the author of the life of was prevailed on to give up any hostile purpose by
Thucydides. [THUCYDIDES. ]
the mediation of the Eastern emperor, Leo, wbo
MARCELLI'NUS, a friend of Martial, who sent Phylarchus as ambassador to him. (Priscus,
addressed to him three short poems while Mar- ibid. ) In A. D. 464 he was engaged in the defence
cellinus was travelling or with the legions on of Sicily, from which he drove out the Vandals
the Dacian frontier. (Ep. vi. 25, vii. 80, ix. (I datius, Chronicon); and apparently, in 468, at
46. )
(W. B. D. ) the request of Leo, drove the same enemy from
MARCELLI'NUS, the chief minister of the Sardinia (Procopius, l. c. ). 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.
several districts in the Peloponnesus. The latter 6. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 1. [No. 4. ]
part of the reign of Manuel was quiet. Still 7. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 2. There were two
hoping that the Western princes would finally Manuels patriarchs of Constantinople, Manuel I.
unite for the purpose of putting an end to the Charitopulus (No. 4. ) and Manuel II. , the subject
Turkish dominion and restoring the Greek empire, of the present article. Cave, Oudin, and others,
he sent ambassadors to the Council of Constance seem to have confounded the two, for they state
with seeming instructions to effect a union of the that Manuel Charitopulus succeeded Germanus II.
Latin and Greek churches. But his real intentions (GERMANUS, No. 8) in a. d. 1240. Charitopulus
were quite different ; he never earnestly wished was the predecessor of Germanus, not his successor;
for such an union ; and Phranza (ii. 13) was wit- Manuel II. was his successor, though not imme
ness when the emperor openly said that he nego- diately, for the brief patriarchate of Methodius II.
tiated with the Western princes for no other and a vacancy in the see, of considerable but un-
purpose but causing fear to the Turks. This certain length, intervened. Manuel's death is
was well known in Europe; and while Greek distinctly fixed as having occurred two months
fickleness and duplicity prevented a cordial under- before that of the emperor Joannes Ducas Vatatzes
standing between the East and the West, it be- | (JOANNES III. ), which occurred 30th Oct. A. D.
of the larut
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MANUEL
925
MARCELLA.
1255. The duration of his patriarchate is fixed streets. In A. p. 1283, after the accession of Andro-
by Nicephorus Callisti, according to Le Quien, at nicus II. Palacologus, son of Michael, who pursued
eleven years, but the table in the Protrozticon of with respect to the union of the churches an oppo-
Labbe assigns to him fourteen years ; so that A. D. site policy to that of his father, Holobolus appeared
1241 or 1244 will be assumed as the year of his in the synod of Constintinople, in which Joannes
accession, according as one or the other of these Veccus (VeccUS) was deposed from the patriarchate
authorities is preferred. Manuel held, before his of Constantinople, and he took part in the subse-
patriarchate, a high place among the ecclesiastics of quent disputations with that chief of the Latinizing
the Byzantine court then fixed at Nice, and was party. Little else is known of Holobulus (Georg.
reputed a man of piety and holiness“ though Pachym. de Mich. Pulucol. iii. 11, iv. 14, v. 12,
married," and of mild and gentle disposition, but 20 ; De Andron. Palueol. i. 8, 34, 35. )
by no means learned. The threc Sententiae Sy- Holobolus wrote Versus Politici in Michaclem
nodales of the patriarch Manuel, given in the Jus Palaeoloyum, cited in the Glossurium in Scriptores
Gracco-Romanum, undoubtedly belong to this pa-Med. et Infim. Gruecitulis of Ducange, s. r. 'Prítwp.
triarch, not to Charitopulus (see No. 4], for the These are probably the same verses which are
second of them, De Translatione Episcoporum, is extant in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, under
cxpressly dated July, Indict. 8, A. M. 6758, era of the title of Versus Politici XXV. de Vunilule om-
Constant. = A. D. 1250. Some works in MS. , nium Rerum. 2. The 'Epunveial, Scholia in Arum
especially a letter to pope Innocent, by “ Manuel Dosiadae, published by Valcknaer, in the Diutrile
Patriarcha CPol. ,” probably belong to the subject in Euripidis perditorum Drumatum Reliquias (c.
of this article. (Georg. Acropolit. Annal. c. 42, xii. ), subjoined to his editio. of the Hippolytus of
51, 52, 53, pp. 39, 54, 56, 57, ed. Paris, pp. 77, Euripides (4to. Leyden, 1768), may be probably
107, 110, 112, ed. Bonn ; Ephraem. de Joan. ascribed to our Holobolus. But the Apologiu ad
Duca. Vatatze, vs. 8860; De Theod. Duca. Lascare, Erolemata Francisci Ordinis Praedicatorum Mo-
vs. 8922; De Patriarch. CP. vs. 10,267, &c. ; Le nuchi, published, though in a mutilated form, in
Quien, Oriens Christ. vol. i. col. 279; Cave and the Varia Sacra of Le Moyne (vol. i. pp. 268—293),
Oudin, as in No. 4; Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. appears to be by a later writer described as “Manuel
p. 668. )
Rhetor," whom Cave places A. D. 1500, and whic
8. HOLOBOLUS ('Olówhos), a Byzantine writer lived for many years after that time. (Fabric.
of the latter part of the thirteenth century. When Biblioth. Gruec. vol. xi. p. 669 ; Cave, Hist. Litt.
the ambitious Michael Palaeologus [MICHAEL Appendix, ad ann. 1500, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 224. )
VIII. ] deprived his youthful colleague Joannes 9. MOSCHOPULUS. (MOSCHOPULUS. )
Lascaris (JOANNES IV. ) of his eyes and his share 10. PHILE. [PHILE. )
in the empire, and sent him into banishment about 11. Rhetor. (No. 8. )
A. D. 1261 or 1262, Holobolus, then a lad pur- 12. STRABOROMANUS, a Byzantine writer of
suing his studies, was cruelly mutilated by order the time of Alexius Comnenus. He wrote on astro-
of Michael, his nose and lips being cut off, because logy, and some of his works are extant in MS.
he had expressed grief at the treatment of the (Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. xi. p. 670. ) (J. C. M. ]
young emperor. The mutilated lad was confined MA'RATHON (Mapalov), the hero eponymus
to the monastery of the Precursor (TOÙ a pod póuov), of the Attic town of Marathon. According to
where having excellent abilities and good oppor- some traditions, he was a son of Epopeus ; and
tunity, he pursued his studies with such success, being driven from Peloponnesus by the violence of
that the patriarch Germanus III. of Constanti- his father, he went to Attica. After his father's
nople (GERMANUS, No. 8], shortly after his ac- death, he returned to Peloponnesus, divided his
cession to the patriarchate, A. D. 1267, procured inheritance between his two sons, and then settled
him to be appointed master of the school for the in Attica. (Paus. ii. 1. § 1, 15. Ø 4, 32, § 4. )
instruction of young ecclesiastics, and prevailed According to others, Marathon was an Arcadian,
upon the emperor to remit his punishment, and and took part with the Tyndaridae in their expe-
allow him to quit the monastery. Tne patriarch dition against Attica, and in pursuance of an
also conferred upon him the ecclesiastical office of oracle, devoted himself to death before the beginning
rhetor, reader and expounder of the Scriptures, of the battle. (Plut. Thes. 32 ; comp. Philostr.
and showed him much kindness. When the em- Vit. Soph. ii. 7. )
[L. S. ]
peror formed the design of a reconciliation of the MA'RATHÚS, JU’LIUS, a freedman of the
Greek and Latin churches, Holobolus was one of emperor Augustus, who wrote an account of the
the ecclesiastics of whose counsels he availed him life of his master. (Suet. Aug. 79, 94. )
self. Holobolus, however, did not enter very MARCELLA. 1. Daughter of C. Marcellus,
heartily into the business; and, having been hurt C. F. , and Octavia, the sister of Augristus. She
by a slight offered him by the emperor, he changed was married, first to M. Vipsanius Agrippa, who
sides, and when called upon to give his opinion in separated from her in B. c.
21, after the death of
a synod at Constantinople, declared against the her brother, Marcellus (No. 15), in order to marry
plan of reconciliation altogether. This drew from Julia, the daughter of Augustus. After this her
the emperor, who was present, an outburst of re- uncle gave her in marriage, secondly, to Julus
proach; to which the angry ecclesiastic gave so Antonius, the son of the triumvir (Antonius, No.
blunt and undaunted a reply, that he was near 19], by whom she had a son Lucius. After his
being torn to pieces by the courtiers who surrounded death she married, thirdly, Sext. Appuleius, who
the emperor.
He took sinctuary in the great was consul in A. d. 14, by whom she had a daughter,
church, but being taken from thence, was banished Appuleia Varilia. (Plut. Anton. 87; Dion Cass.
to the monastery of Hyacinthus at Nice, A. D. liii. 1, liv, 6; Vell. Pat. ii. 93, 100; Suet. Aug.
1273. Before long he was brought back to Con- 63 ; Tac. Ann. ii. 50. )
stantinople, cruelly beaten, and paraded with 2. Sister of the preceding. (Plut. Ant. 87 ;
various circumstances of ignominy through the Suet. Aug. 63. )
[E. H. B. ]
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MARCELLINUS.
MARCELLINUS.
MAE
circulate of Justinian
letter pent is containe
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celizas, who lived pre
and in the beginning
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by modera historian
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MARCELLI NC
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MARCELLA, was a wiſe or mistress of the defenceless, and returned apparently to Illyricum.
poet Martial, to whom he has addressed two epi. This was probably in A. D. 461 or 462, after Majo
grams (xii. 21, 31). She was a native of Spain, rian's death. (Priscus, Historia, apud Excerpta do
and brought him as her dowry an estate. As Legationibus Gentium ad Romanos, c. 14, and Ro
Martial was married previously to Cleopatra (En. manorum ad Gentes, c. 10. ) The Western empire,
iv. 22, xi. 43, 104), he espoused Marcella probably which had passed into the hands of Severus, now
after his return to Spain about A. D. 96. (W. B. D. ) apprehended an attack from Marcellinus, but he
MARCELLI'NUS, the author of the life of was prevailed on to give up any hostile purpose by
Thucydides. [THUCYDIDES. ]
the mediation of the Eastern emperor, Leo, wbo
MARCELLI'NUS, a friend of Martial, who sent Phylarchus as ambassador to him. (Priscus,
addressed to him three short poems while Mar- ibid. ) In A. D. 464 he was engaged in the defence
cellinus was travelling or with the legions on of Sicily, from which he drove out the Vandals
the Dacian frontier. (Ep. vi. 25, vii. 80, ix. (I datius, Chronicon); and apparently, in 468, at
46. )
(W. B. D. ) the request of Leo, drove the same enemy from
MARCELLI'NUS, the chief minister of the Sardinia (Procopius, l. c. ). 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
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