A Roman an- | The obverse represents a
youthful
head, and
OCCO
acom
groente
PRAE
ඔබ
ACE
SIC
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COIN OF CLODIUS MACER.
OCCO
acom
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SIC
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COIN OF CLODIUS MACER.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
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. S. )
Otho's gladiators, but not the name of their
MACHA'NIDAS, tyrant of Lacedaemon about
leader.
(W. B. D. ]
the beginning of the second century B. C. , was ori-
MACER, POMPE'IUS, was one of the prae- ginally, perhaps, the leader of a band of Tarentine
tors in A. D. 15, and put the question to the mercenaries in the pay of the Spartan government.
senate, whether there should be an extension of The history of Lacedaemon at this period is so ob
the Lex Majestatis. His praetorship therefore scure that the means by which Machanidas obtained
marks the epoch at which the government of Tibe- the tyranny are unknown. He was probably at
rius began to assume its worse and darker features. first associated with Pelops, son and successor of
(Tac. Ann. i. 72; Suet. Tib. 58 ; comp. Dion Lycurgus on the double throne of Sparta ; but he
Cass. Ivii. 19 ; Sen. de Ben. iii. 26 ; and see Ma- eclipsed or expelled his colleague, and for his crimes
jestas, s. v. Dict. of Antiq. ). [W. B. D. ] and the terror he inspired he is termed emphati-
MACER, SEPU'LLIUS, only known from cally “ the tyrant. ” Like his predecessor Lycur-
coins, a specimen of which is annexed. The ob- cus, Machanidas had no hereditary or plausible
verse represents the head of Julius Caesar, and title to the crown, but, unlike him, he respected
the reverse Victory, holding in one hand a spear, neither the ephors nor the laws, and ruled by the
and in the other a small statue of Victory. swords of his mercenaries alone. Argos and the
Achaean league found him a restless and relentless
neighbour, whom they could not resist without the
aid of Macedon ; and Rome-at that crisis, the
| 11th year of the second Punic war, anxious to de-
tain Philip IV. in Greece, and, as usual, unscrupu-
lous in the choice of its instruments-employed
him as an active and able ally. Machanidas reve
renced the religious prejudices of Greece as little
as the political rights of his own subjects. Towards
MACERI'NUS, the name of a very ancient the close of the Aetolian war, in B. C. 207, while
family of the patrician Gegania Gens. [GEGANIA the Grecian states were negotiating the terms of
GENS. ]
peace, and the Eleians were making preparations
1. T. GEGANIUS MACERINUS, consul B. C. 492, for the next Olympic festival, Machanidas projected
with P. Minucius Augurinus, during which year an inroad into the sacred territory of Elis. The
there was a great famine at Rome, in consequence design was frustrated by the timely arrival of the
of the lands being uncultivated in the preceding king of Macedon in the Peloponnesus, and Ma-
year, when the plebs had retired to the Sacred chanidas withdrew precipitately to Sparta But
Mountain. (Liv. ii. 34; Dionys. vii. l; Oros. the project marks both the man and the era — an
era equally void of personal, national, and ancestral
2. L. GENUCIUS (MACERINUS), brother of No. faith. Af length, in B. c. 207, after eight months
1, was sent into Sicily during his brother's consul- careful preparation, Philopoemen, captain-general
ship to obtain corn. (Dionys. vii. 1. )
of the cavalry of the Achaean league, delivered
3. M. GEGANIUS, M. F. MACERINUS, was three Greece from Machanidas. The Achaean and La-
times consul; first in B. C. 447, with C. Julius cedaemonian armies met between Mantineia and
Julus ; a second time in B. C. 443, with T. Quin-Tegea. The Tarentine mercenaries of Machanidas
tius Capitolinus Barbatus, in which year he con- routed and chased from the field the Tarentine
quered the Volscians, and obtained a triumph on mercenaries of Philopoemen. They pursued, how-
account of his victory; and a third time in B. c. ever, too eagerly ; and when Machanidas led them
437, with L. Sergius Fidenas. (Liv. iii. 65, iv. back, the Lacedaemonian infantry had been broken,
8—10, 17; Dionys. xi. 51, 63; Diod. xii. 29, 33, and the Achaeans were strongly intrenched behind
43 ; Zonar. vii. 19. ) The censorship, which was a deep foss. In the act of leaping his horse over
instituted in his second consulship, he filled in B. c. the foss Machanidas fell by the hand of Philo-
435, with C. Furius Pacilus Fusus. These censors | poemen. To commemorate their leader's valour,
Pedaleiros be bad &
consuling them
Ithons, and Oechali
He was founded by
the feed of batzlei
832) Later writer
Greek heroes that
borse (Hygin. Fab.
be is said to have
Lyraph 911; Propa
by Eurypolus, the s
Teze carried to M
mas believed to be a
sactuary was de
persons sought reli
there that Glaneus,
bered to bare first
it. 3. & 2, 6, lil 2
MACHARES
COIN OF SEPULLIUS MACER.
the Great, was app
Beparus, when be
that country, after
B. 08. In B. a
Cyriens, applied
at the time readily
wards the repeated
150 noch for the fol
an embassy to Luc
of gold, and reque
aliance with Rome
Laolus; and as a
furnished the Ror
estance in the si
67, 78, 63 ; Plut
Orelli. ) But when
Pompey, adopted t
ii. 5. )
with his army to
seatest from thenc
the consequences o
the actual approac
the city of Chervor
pairing of pardos
(Appan, Mithr. 1
trary, relates (us
him with promise
death. (Comp. 0
MACHATAS
father of Harpalu
India (Arr. An
mai a brother of L
many wires of Ph
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ided at the so
## p.
part of the plea of Macedonius, but does not men- Min. vol. iv. p. 579. )
66
## p. 883 (#899) ############################################
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
## p. 884 (#900) ############################################
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. S. )
Otho's gladiators, but not the name of their
MACHA'NIDAS, tyrant of Lacedaemon about
leader.
(W. B. D. ]
the beginning of the second century B. C. , was ori-
MACER, POMPE'IUS, was one of the prae- ginally, perhaps, the leader of a band of Tarentine
tors in A. D. 15, and put the question to the mercenaries in the pay of the Spartan government.
senate, whether there should be an extension of The history of Lacedaemon at this period is so ob
the Lex Majestatis. His praetorship therefore scure that the means by which Machanidas obtained
marks the epoch at which the government of Tibe- the tyranny are unknown. He was probably at
rius began to assume its worse and darker features. first associated with Pelops, son and successor of
(Tac. Ann. i. 72; Suet. Tib. 58 ; comp. Dion Lycurgus on the double throne of Sparta ; but he
Cass. Ivii. 19 ; Sen. de Ben. iii. 26 ; and see Ma- eclipsed or expelled his colleague, and for his crimes
jestas, s. v. Dict. of Antiq. ). [W. B. D. ] and the terror he inspired he is termed emphati-
MACER, SEPU'LLIUS, only known from cally “ the tyrant. ” Like his predecessor Lycur-
coins, a specimen of which is annexed. The ob- cus, Machanidas had no hereditary or plausible
verse represents the head of Julius Caesar, and title to the crown, but, unlike him, he respected
the reverse Victory, holding in one hand a spear, neither the ephors nor the laws, and ruled by the
and in the other a small statue of Victory. swords of his mercenaries alone. Argos and the
Achaean league found him a restless and relentless
neighbour, whom they could not resist without the
aid of Macedon ; and Rome-at that crisis, the
| 11th year of the second Punic war, anxious to de-
tain Philip IV. in Greece, and, as usual, unscrupu-
lous in the choice of its instruments-employed
him as an active and able ally. Machanidas reve
renced the religious prejudices of Greece as little
as the political rights of his own subjects. Towards
MACERI'NUS, the name of a very ancient the close of the Aetolian war, in B. C. 207, while
family of the patrician Gegania Gens. [GEGANIA the Grecian states were negotiating the terms of
GENS. ]
peace, and the Eleians were making preparations
1. T. GEGANIUS MACERINUS, consul B. C. 492, for the next Olympic festival, Machanidas projected
with P. Minucius Augurinus, during which year an inroad into the sacred territory of Elis. The
there was a great famine at Rome, in consequence design was frustrated by the timely arrival of the
of the lands being uncultivated in the preceding king of Macedon in the Peloponnesus, and Ma-
year, when the plebs had retired to the Sacred chanidas withdrew precipitately to Sparta But
Mountain. (Liv. ii. 34; Dionys. vii. l; Oros. the project marks both the man and the era — an
era equally void of personal, national, and ancestral
2. L. GENUCIUS (MACERINUS), brother of No. faith. Af length, in B. c. 207, after eight months
1, was sent into Sicily during his brother's consul- careful preparation, Philopoemen, captain-general
ship to obtain corn. (Dionys. vii. 1. )
of the cavalry of the Achaean league, delivered
3. M. GEGANIUS, M. F. MACERINUS, was three Greece from Machanidas. The Achaean and La-
times consul; first in B. C. 447, with C. Julius cedaemonian armies met between Mantineia and
Julus ; a second time in B. C. 443, with T. Quin-Tegea. The Tarentine mercenaries of Machanidas
tius Capitolinus Barbatus, in which year he con- routed and chased from the field the Tarentine
quered the Volscians, and obtained a triumph on mercenaries of Philopoemen. They pursued, how-
account of his victory; and a third time in B. c. ever, too eagerly ; and when Machanidas led them
437, with L. Sergius Fidenas. (Liv. iii. 65, iv. back, the Lacedaemonian infantry had been broken,
8—10, 17; Dionys. xi. 51, 63; Diod. xii. 29, 33, and the Achaeans were strongly intrenched behind
43 ; Zonar. vii. 19. ) The censorship, which was a deep foss. In the act of leaping his horse over
instituted in his second consulship, he filled in B. c. the foss Machanidas fell by the hand of Philo-
435, with C. Furius Pacilus Fusus. These censors | poemen. To commemorate their leader's valour,
Pedaleiros be bad &
consuling them
Ithons, and Oechali
He was founded by
the feed of batzlei
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Greek heroes that
borse (Hygin. Fab.
be is said to have
Lyraph 911; Propa
by Eurypolus, the s
Teze carried to M
mas believed to be a
sactuary was de
persons sought reli
there that Glaneus,
bered to bare first
it. 3. & 2, 6, lil 2
MACHARES
COIN OF SEPULLIUS MACER.
the Great, was app
Beparus, when be
that country, after
B. 08. In B. a
Cyriens, applied
at the time readily
wards the repeated
150 noch for the fol
an embassy to Luc
of gold, and reque
aliance with Rome
Laolus; and as a
furnished the Ror
estance in the si
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Orelli. ) But when
Pompey, adopted t
ii. 5. )
with his army to
seatest from thenc
the consequences o
the actual approac
the city of Chervor
pairing of pardos
(Appan, Mithr. 1
trary, relates (us
him with promise
death. (Comp. 0
MACHATAS
father of Harpalu
India (Arr. An
mai a brother of L
many wires of Ph
to the family of
the espulsion of
ided at the so
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