Early Marcii ,
circa 113 BC. The obverse depicts
Philip V of Macedon. The reverse displays a
triumphator, either
Quintus Marcius Tremulus, who triumphed in 306 BC, or
Quintus Marcius Philippus, who triumphed in 281. •
Numa Marcius M. f., the son of Marcus, was an intimate friend of Numa Pompilius, and accompanied him to Rome, where he was enrolled in the
Senate, and created the first
Pontifex Maximus. According to
Plutarch, when the king died after a reign of forty-three years, Numa Marcius contended with
Tullus Hostilius for the throne, but being defeated he starved himself to death. • Numa Marcius Numae f. M. n., the son of Numa Marcius, served as under Tullus Hostilius. He married Pompilia, daughter of Numa Pompilius, and was the father of Ancus Marcius. •
Ancus Marcius Numae f. Numae n., the fourth King of Rome, according to tradition restored many religious ceremonies that Tullus Hostilius had neglected, but also ably defended the city in times of war. To him are credited many improvements in and around the city of Rome, including the fortification of the
Janiculum, the building of a bridge over the
Tiber, and the settling of captured
Latins on the
Aventine Hill. •
Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, a legendary Roman soldier who led the charge that captured the
Volscian town of
Corioli. He subsequently became a fierce opponent of the plebeians, urging that they surrender the hard-won office of
tribune of the plebs before grain could be purchased for them during a famine. Rather than face trial for his effrontery, he fled into exile among the Volsci, then led a Volscian force against Rome, withdrawing only at the pleas of his mother and sister. He was the subject of one of
Shakespeare's history plays. • Manius Marcius,
plebeian aedile BC, offered
corn to the people for one
as per
modius, a very low price. The date of this magistrate is uncertain and still debated. • Gnaeus (or Gaius) Marcius,
tribune of the plebs in 389 BC, prosecuted
Quintus Fabius Ambustus, one of three brothers who were sent as ambassadors to the
Gauls at
Clusium, but who instead of negotiating joined the citizens of Clusium in attacking the Gauls, precipitating the
Gallic sack of Rome in 390.
Marcii Rutili of Gaius Marcius Censorinus minted in 88 BC, depicting
Numa Pompilius and
Ancus Marcius, with a
desultor on the reverse.|250x250px • Gaius Marcius Rutilus, grandfather of the consul. • Lucius Marcius C. f. Rutilus, father of the consul. •
Gaius Marcius L. f. C. n. Rutilus, consul in 357 BC, and the first plebeian
dictator in 356,
triumphed over the
Etruscans. He was consul for the second time in 352, and became the first plebeian
censor in 351 BC. He was consul again in 344 and 342, on the latter occasion the
First Samnite War, during which he quelled a conspiracy among the Roman troops. •
Gaius Marcius C. f. L. n. Rutilus Censorinus, tribune of the plebs in 311 BC, he and his colleague, Lucius Atilius, succeeded in passing a law requiring the
military tribunes to be elected by the people. He was consul in 310 BC, during the
Second Samnite War, together with
Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus. While Fabius campaigned against the Etruscans, Marcius fought against the
Samnites, and captured the town of
Allifae, but was seriously wounded in a subsequent battle. He was one of the first plebeian pontiffs in 300 BC, and served as censor in 294; elected censor a second time in 265, he is said to have brought forward a law precluding anyone from holding the censorship twice in the future. He was perhaps the first
princeps senatus, appointed BC.
Marcii Censorini • Gaius Marcius Censorinus, descendant of
Gaius Marcius Rutilus, the first plebeian censor. • Gaius Marcius C. f. Censorinus, father Lucius Marcius Censorinus, the consul of 149 BC. •
Lucius Marcius C. f. C. n. Censorinus, consul in 149 BC, the year of the
Third Punic War. He was given command of the Roman fleet, and together with his colleague,
Manius Manilius, laid siege to the city; but Marcius had to return to Rome to hold elections for the following year. He was censor in 147. • Gnaeus Marcius Censorinus, tribune of the plebs in 122 BC, he proposed a law relating to the election of military tribunes. •
Gaius Marcius Censorinus, an orator, tried to prosecute
Sulla in the 90s BC. Siding with
Cinna and the Marians during the civil wars, he personally slew the consul
Gnaeus Octavius in 87. He was put to death by Sulla after the
Battle of the Colline Gate in 82. • Lucius (Marcius) Censorinus, evidently a in 82 BC, may have been an officer in the Roman fleet in 70. • (Marcius) Censorinus, a friend of
Quintus Tullius Cicero during his administration of Asia in 59 BC. •
(Marcius) Censorinus, a friend of
Publius Licinius Crassus; the two were killed at the
Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC. •
Lucius Marcius L. f. C. n. Censorinus, a partisan of
Marcus Antonius, was
praetor in 43 BC, and consul in 39, receiving a triumph for his military successes in
Macedonia. In 17 BC, he was one of the . •
Gaius Marcius L. f. L. n. Censorinus, consul in 8 BC, and afterward governor of
Asia. He died in there in AD 2. The people of
Miletus viewed him as their patron and benefactor, and
Velleius Paterculus calls him .
Marcii Tremuli et Philippi • Quintus Marcius, grandfather of Quintus Marcius Tremulus, the consul of 306 BC. • Quintus Marcius Q. f., father of the consul of 306 BC. •
Quintus Marcius Q. f. Q. n. Tremulus, consul in 306 BC, defeated the
Hernici and Anagnini, and celebrated a triumph. He was likely the father of Quintus Marcius Philippus, since their filiation match and they were the first two Marcii to use the praenomen Quintus. •
Quintus Marcius Q. f. Q. n. Philippus, consul in 281 BC, triumphed over the Etruscans. In 263 he was nominated
magister equitum by the dictator
Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus. • Lucius Marcius Q. f. Philippus, father of the consul of 186 BC, was connected in some manner with
Philip V of Macedon, although the circumstances are not known. He may have been the first member of this family to bear the surname
Philippus, rather than the consul of 281. • Quintus Marcius Q. f. L. n. Philippus, son of the consul in 186 and 169 BC, served under his father in Macedonia. • Quintus Marcius Philippus, according to
Cicero, was condemned, and went into exile at
Nuceria, where he became a citizen. He might possibly be the same as the son of the consul of 186 and 169 BC. • Quintus Marcius Q. f. Q. n. Philippus, in 129 BC. His coins feature a helmet with goat's horns, usually worn by Macedonian kings, an allusion to his cognomen. •
Lucius Marcius Q. f. Q. n. Philippus, a powerful orator of the late Republic. As tribune of the plebs in 104 BC, his attempt to bring about agrarian reform was blocked. He was consul in 91, and found himself in violent opposition to
Marcus Livius Drusus, who had him arrested; but so strongly did public opinion sway that Philippus subsequently had all of Drusus' laws nullified. He maintained neutrality during the civil war between Marius and Sulla, and was censor in 86; after Sulla's death he became a supporter of
Gnaeus Pompeius. •
Lucius Marcius L. f. Q. n. Philippus, consul in 56 BC, maintained neutrality during the
Civil War, remaining on good terms with both Caesar and Cicero. His second wife was
Atia; he thus became the step-father of Gaius Octavius, afterward the emperor
Augustus, whom he tried to dissuade from becoming Caesar's heir, and was sent by the Senate to negotiate with
Antonius. At Augustus' request, he helped construct a number of public buildings. His daughter was the second wife of
Cato the Younger. •
Lucius Marcius L. f. L. n. Philippus, the step-brother of Augustus, was tribune of the plebs in 49 BC, praetor in 44, and consul in 38. He married Atia, the younger sister of his father's second wife. • Quintus Marcius L. f. L. n. Philippus, proconsul of
Cilicia in 47 BC. He was initially thought to be the brother of the consul of 56, but he was actually his younger son. •
Marcia L. f. L. n., wife of Cato the Younger, by whom she had several children; she lived for several years with the orator
Quintus Hortensius, but returned to Cato after the latter's death. When Cato fled Rome on the outset of the Civil War, in BC 49, he left his family and property in her care. • Marcia, the wife of
Paullus Fabius Maximus, consul in 11 BC, who is said to have spoken to his wife of the secret visit of Augustus to his grandson,
Agrippa, in AD 13. According to Tacitus, Marcia disclosed this fact to the empress
Livia, leading in some fashion to the death of Fabius shortly thereafter.
Family tree of the Marcii Philippi and Figuli Made from Münzer with corrections from Sumner. • Quintus Marcius Ralla, tribune of the plebs in 196 BC, joined with his colleague, Gaius Atinius Labeo, in vetoing an attempt by the consul
Marcus Claudius Marcellus to prevent the conclusion of peace with Philip V of Macedon. He was then appointed
duumvir in 194 and 192 BC, in the former year to dedicate the temple of
Fortuna Primigeneia on the
Quirinal Hill, and in the latter to dedicate two temples that had been vowed by
Lucius Furius Purpureo.
Marcii Reges • Marcus Marcius, the first plebeian Rex Sacrorum, probably appointed between 254 and 243 BC, during the tenure of
Tiberius Coruncanius, himself the first plebeian Pontifex Maximus. He died in 210. • Quintus Marcius Rex, father of Quintus, the praetor of 144 BC, and probable brother of Publius Marcius Rex, the envoy of 171. •
Quintus Marcius Q. f. Rex, praetor
urbanus in 144 BC, he was appointed by the Senate to repair the Appian, Old Aniensian, and Tepulan
aqueducts, and to construct a new one, which became known as the
Aqua Marcia. He was granted about 180 million
sestertii for the task, and his
imperium was extended the following year so that he could finish the task. •
Quintus Marcius Q. f. Q. n. Rex, consul in 118 BC, triumphed over the Stoeni, a
Ligurian people. The colony of
Narbo Martius, established during his consulship, may have been named for him. Marcius' only son died during his consulship, but he stoically performed his duties, even meeting the Senate on the day of his son's burial. • Marcia Q. f. Q. n., sister of the consul of 118 BC, married Gaius Julius Caesar, grandfather of
the dictator. • Marcia, one of three
Vestals condemned for violating their vows of celibacy in 113 BC. She is identified by Münzer as a sister of the consul of 118, who was also prosecuted at the same time; both the trials of the father and daughter had political motivations. • Quintus Marcius, in 118 BC, likely a relative of the consul of 118. •
Quintus Marcius Q. f. (Q. n.) Rex, consul in 68 BC, and afterward proconsul in
Cilicia, for which he requested but was not granted a triumph. In 63, the Senate dispatched him to keep watch over Gaius Mallius, one of
Catiline's confederates at
Faesulae. He had married a sister of
Publius Clodius Pulcher, who expected to receive an inheritance from his brother-in-law, but was disappointed when Marcius died without leaving him anything.
Marcii Figuli • Gaius Marcius Figulus, father of the consul of 162 BC, and likely son of the consul of 281. • Titus Marcius Figulus, younger brother of the consul of 162 BC, reported that a palm-tree had sprung in the inner court of his house. • Gaius Marcius C. f. C. n. Figulus, a very distinguished jurist, sought the consulship in the 130's or 120's BC, but was unsuccessful. He was the son of the consul of 162. •
Gaius Marcius C. f. C. n. Figulus, consul in 64 BC, took measures to prevent various unauthorized organizations from influencing the comitia. The following year, he supported Cicero's measures to suppress the
conspiracy of Catiline. He was born Quintus Minucius Thermus, but later adopted into the Marcii. • Gaius Marcius Figulus, a prefect under
Publius Cornelius Dolabella in 43 BC.
Marcii Libones • Quintus Marcius Libo, in 148 BC. • Marcius Libo, (chief engineer in a Roman legion) under
Marcus Terentius Varro in 66 BC.
Marcii Bareae •
Quintus Marcius C. f. C. n. Barea Soranus, consul
suffectus in AD 34, afterwards
proconsul of
Africa. •
Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus, consul
suffectus in AD 52, and afterward proconsul of
Asia. He and his daughter, Servilia, were denounced before the emperor
Nero, and condemned to death in AD 66. •
Marcia Servilia Q. f. Sorana, was denounced before Nero on the grounds that she had consulted soothsayers concerning her father's fate, and condemned to death. •
Quintus Marcius Q. f. C. n. Barea Sura, was a friend of the emperor
Vespasian. •
Marcia Q. f. Q. n., the daughter of Sura, was the mother of the emperor
Trajan.
Others • Marcia, the wife of
Marcus Atilius Regulus, consul during the
First Punic War. Münzer thinks she was the daughter of Quintus Marcius Philippus, the consul of 281 BC. • Quintus and Marcus Marcius, two military tribunes serving with the second legion, who were slain in battle against the
Boii in 193 BC. • Marcus Marcius M'. f., in 134 BC. His coins refer to Manius Marcius, the plebeian aedile of 440 BC. • Marcius Rufus, quaestor of Curio for the province of Africa. •
Quintus Marcius Crispus, a military tribune who served under Caesar during the
Civil War. In 43 BC, he was proconsul in
Bithynia, and brought three legions to the aid of Lucius Staius Murcus, the governor of
Syria. They afterward submitted to
Gaius Cassius Longinus. • (Cremutia) Marcia A. f., the daughter of
Aulus Cremutius Cordus, preserved her father's works after he had been denounced before
Tiberius, and taken his own life. • Marcius Marcellus, an orator mentioned by
Seneca the Elder. • Marcius L. f. Macer, led a force of
gladiators in support of
Otho against
Vitellius in AD 69. As one of Otho's chief supporters, he was to be made consul
suffectus later in the year; but when Vitellius came to power, Macer was removed from the list of consuls designate, so that the emperor could honour his own supporters with consulships. •
Quintus Marcius Turbo, a distinguished general under the emperors Trajan and
Hadrian. • Sextus Marcius Priscus, consul
suffectus in AD 72. • Marcus Marcius Macer, consul
suffectus in AD 100. • Sextus Marcius Honoratus, consul
suffectus in AD 110. •
Lucius Marcius Celer Marcus Calpurnius Longus, consul
suffectus in AD 144. • Marcius Quartus,
praetorian prefect under
Commodus; according to the
Historia Augusta, he held that appointment for only five days. •
Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias, the mistress of
Quadratus, who was implicated in a plot to assassinate Commodus, and put to death. Marcia then became the emperor's mistress, and participated in a second, successful conspiracy. •
Marcius Agrippa, a man of humble origin, was appointed governor of
Pannonia by the emperor
Macrinus in AD 217. He later served as governor of
Dacia, and is probably the same Marcius Agrippa who, as admiral of the fleet, had witnessed the death of Macrinus' predecessor,
Caracalla. ==See also==