. battle is still to be seen. JIarathus (Mdpados), an important city onthe coast of Phoenicia, opposite to Aradus andnear Antaradus (Strab. p. 753); it was destroyedby the people of Aradus in the time of theSyrian king Alexander Balas, a little 150 (Diod. Frag, xxxiii.). Marcella. 1. Daughter of C. Marcellus andOctavia, the sister of Augustus. She was thricemarried : first, to M. Vipsanius Agrippa, whoseparated from her in 21, in order to marryJulia, the daughter of Augustus; secondly, toJulus Antonius, the son of the
. battle is still to be seen. JIarathus (Mdpados), an important city onthe coast of Phoenicia, opposite to Aradus andnear Antaradus (Strab. p. 753); it was destroyedby the people of Aradus in the time of theSyrian king Alexander Balas, a little 150 (Diod. Frag, xxxiii.). Marcella. 1. Daughter of C. Marcellus andOctavia, the sister of Augustus. She was thricemarried : first, to M. Vipsanius Agrippa, whoseparated from her in 21, in order to marryJulia, the daughter of Augustus; secondly, toJulus Antonius, the son of the triumvir, bywhom she had a son Lucius; thirdly, to , consul 14, by whom she had adaughter, Appuleia Varilia (Pint. Ant. 87; DioCass. liii. 1, liv. 6; Suet. Aug. 03; Tac. Ann. ).—2. Wife of the poet Martial. [] Marcellinus, the author of the Life of Thucy-dides. [ Marcellus, Claudius, an illustrious plebeianfamily. 1. M., celebrated as five times consul,and the conqueror of Syracuse. In his first MARCELLUS 523. This coin, struck by P. Cornelias Lentalas Marcellinus[see below. No. 12], has on the obverse the head of SlurceUus. the Conqueror of Syracuse. The reverse re- Jreacnts him carrying the ttjtolin ajtimn to the Temple ofuplter Feretrius, with MARCELLVS COS. consulship, 222, Marcellus and his colleagueconquered the Insubrians in Cisalpine Gaul,and took their capital Mediolanum. Marcellusdistinguished himself by slaying in battle withhis own hand Britomartus or Viridomarus, theking of the enemy, whose spoils he afterwardsdedicated as spolia opima in the temple ofJupiter Feretrius. This was the third and lastinstance in Roman history in which such anoffering was made (Pol. ii. 84 ; Plut. Marc. 6;Val. Max. ii. 3, 5; Propert. v. 10, 40).—In 21fiMarcellus was appointed praetor, and renderedimportant service to the Roman cause in the Italy after the disastrous battle of was mainly answerable for the im
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