Marullus

• a Roman surname, e. g. C. Epidius Marullus, Val. Max. 5, 7, 2. —In fem.: Mărulla, ae, Mart. 10, 55, 1.

tribune of the plebs, B. C. 44, removed, in conjunction with his colleague L. Caesetius Flavus, the diadem which had been placed upon the statue of C. Julius Caesar, and attempted to bring to trial the persons who had saluted the dictator as king. Caesar, in consequence, deprived him of the tribunate, by help of the tribune Helvius Cinna, and expelled him from the senate. (D. C. 44.9, 10; Appian, App. BC 2.108, 122; Plut. Cases. 61; Vell. 2.68; Suet. Jul. 79, 80; Cic. Philipp. 13.15.)

mentioned by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 14.48), as consul designatus in A. D. 62, must have been one of the consules suffecti in that year, though his name does not occur in the Fasti. (Pighius, Annal. vol. iii. p. 595.)

Gaius . A tribune of the people who, with his colleague L. Caesetius Flavus, removed the diadem that had been placed upon the statue of Iulius Caesar. He also tried to bring to trial the persons who had saluted Caesar as king, but the dictator deprived him of the tribunician power and expelled him from the Senate ( Iul. 79).