Marcii

Marcius , sometimes written Martius , was the nomen of a former family initially plebeian patrician then Roman, the people Marcia . It belonged to the hundred gentes at the origins of Rome and its name comes the Sabine divinity with the name Osque Mavors or Mamers , later comparable with Mars.

This people of origin Sabine affirmed to go down from the fourth king de Rome, Ancus Marcius. People made strike the effigy of Numa Pompilius and of Ancus Marcius on its currency and one of the families of people carried even the nomen Rex (in Latin: king ). In spite of this supposed antiquity however, one finds no patrician bearing this name in the first times of the republic, except for Coriolan. It is only after the promulgation of the laws liciniennes that one finds members of this family reaching the consular load, the first being Caius Marcius Rutilus Censorinus, consul in -357.

The only branch patrician of the family bore the name of Coriolanus . The plebeian branches, at the time of the republic, had as a name Censorinus , Crispus , Figulus , Libo , Philippus , Ralla , Rex , Rufus , Rutilus , Septimus , Sermo and Tremulus . A Marcius soothsayer would be at the origin of the Ludi Apollinares ( plays apollinaires ) in -212 and it is also with one of the members of this family, Quintus Marcius Rex that Rome owes the construction of the famous aqueduct Aqua Marcia.

Under the Royalty

Under the Republic

Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, known as Coriolan
Gaius Marcius Rutilus, four times consul, in -357, -352, -344 and -342
Caius Marcius Rutilus Censorinus, consul in -310
Quintus Marcius Tremulus, consul in -306 and -288
Quintus Marcius Philippus, consul in -281
Marcus Marcius, died in -210, was the first Rex sacrorum resulting from the plebs
Quintus Marcius Philippus, consul in -186
Caius Marcius Figulus, consul in -162
Caius Marcius Figulus, consul in -156
Lucius Marcius Censorinus, consul in -149
Quintus Marcius Rex, consul in -118. As praetor, in -144, it started the construction of the aqueduct Aqua Marcia
Lucius Marcius Philippus, consul in -91
Quintus Marcius Rex, consul in -68, wire of Quintus Marcius Rex
Lucius Marcius Philippus, consul in -56, wire of Lucius Marcius Philippus. He was the father-in-law of Octave by his marriage with Atia, niece of César.
Lucius Marcius Censorinus, consul in -39

Under the Empire

Caius Marcius Censorinus, consul in -8
Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus, consul suffect in 51
Quintus Marcius Turbo, general Roman 2nd century, which served Trajan and Hadrian

Sources

Plutarque, Life of Coriolan , I
Smith, Dictionary off Greek and Romance Biography and Mythology , 1867

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