Maecia (gens)

Members

• Octavius Maecius, according to some accounts, leader of the allied cavalry in 293 BC, during the Third Samnite War. He employed a clever ruse to make his forces appear far more substantial than they in fact were, alarming the Samnite army.
• Spurius Maecius Tarpa, a contemporary of Cicero, whom Pompeius hired to select the plays performed at his games in 55 BC. At a later date, Octavian relied on him for his opinion of drama.
• Quintus Maecius, a Roman poet, known only from his twelve epigrams in the Greek Anthology, which are some of the finest in the collection.
• Marcus Maecius Rufus, proconsul of Bithynia, and consul suffectus during the reign of Vespasian.
• Lucius Maecius Postumus, consul suffectus in AD 98.
• Lucius Roscius Aelianus Maecius Celer, consul suffectus in AD 100.
• Marcus Maecius Celer, consul suffectus in AD 101.
• Maecius Marullus, named by the Historia Augusta as the father of the emperor Gordian I.
• Quintus Maecius Laetus, consul in AD 215; he had previously been consul in an uncertain year.
• Marcus Pomponius Maecius Probus, consul in AD 228.
• Marcus Maecius Memmius Furius Placidus, consul in AD 343.
• Rufius Achilius Maecius Placidus, consul in AD 481.

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