Rex

• a surname in the gens Marcia, e. g. Q. Marcius Rex, consul A. U. C. 686, Sall. C. 30, 3: Q. (Marcius) Rex, brother-in-law of Clodius, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 10 (in a lusus verbb. with rex, a tyrant, despot); cf. Hor. S. 1, 7, 35: P. Marcius Rex, Liv. 43, 1 al.; cf. Suet. Caes. 6.

1. Q. Marcius Rex, tribune of the plebs B. C. 196, proposed to the people to make peace with Philip. (Liv. 33.25.)

2. P. Marcius Rex, was sent by the senate with two colleagues on a mission to the consul C. Cassius Longinus, in B. C. 171. (Liv. 43.1.)

3. Q. Marcius Rex, praetor B. C. 144, was commissioned by the senate to build an aqueduct, and in order that he might complete it, his imperium was prolonged for another year. This aqueduct, known by the name of Aqua Marcia, was one of the most important, and is spoken of at length in the Dictionary of Antiquities (p. 110, 2d ed.). (Frontin. de Aquaed. 12; Plin. H. N. 31.3. s. 24; Plut. Cor. 1.)

4. Q. Marcius Rex, Q. F. Q. N., consul B. C. 118, with M. Porcius Cato. The colony of Narbo Martius in Gaul was founded in this year. Marcius carried on war against the Stoeni, a Ligurian people at the foot of the Alps, and obtained a triumph in the following year on account of his victories over them. Marcius lost during his consulship his only son, a youth of great promise, but had such mastery over his feelings as to meet the senate on the day of his son's burial, and perform his regular official duties (Plin. Nat. 2.31; Gel. 13.19; Liv. Epit. 62; Oros. 5.14; Fasti Capit. ; V. Max. 5.10.3). The sister of this Marcius Rex married C. Julius Caesar, the grandfather of the dictator. [Marcia, No. 2.]

5. Q. Marcius Rex, Q. F., probably a grandson of No. 4, was consul B. C. 68, with L. Caecilius Metellus. His colleague died at the commencement of his year of office, and as no consul was elected in his place, we find the name of Marcius Rex in the Fasti with the remark, solus consulatum gessit. He was proconsul in Cilicia in the following year, and there refused assistance to Lucullus, at the instigation of his brother-in-law, the celebrated P. Clodius, whom Lucullus had offended. In B. C. 66, Marcius had to surrender his province and army to Pompeius in compliance with the Lex Manilia. On his return to Rome he sued for a triumph, but as obstacles were thrown in the way by certain parties, he remained outside the city to prosecute his claims, and was still there when the Catilinarian conspiracy broke out in B. C. 63. The senate sent him to Faesulae, to watch the movements of C. Mallius or Manlius, Catiline's general. Mallius sent proposals of peace to Marcius, but the latter refused to listen to his terms unless he consented first to lay down his arms (D. C. 35.4, 14, 15, 17, 36.26, 31; Cic. in Pison. 4; Sall. Hist. 5, Cat. 30, 32-34). Marcius Rex married the eldest sister of P. Clodius [Claudia, No. 7]. He died before B. C. 61, without leaving his brother-in-law the inheritance he had expected (Cic. Att. 1.16.10).

probably a false reading in Appian (App. BC 2.113) for Rubrius Ruga. [Ruga.]

(1) Quintus, Roman praetor B.C. 144, built the aqueduct called Aqua Marcia.

(2) Quintus, Roman consul in B.C. 118, founded in this year the colony of Narbo Martius in Gaul.

(3) Quintus, Roman consul in 68, and proconsul in Cilicia in the following year. Being refused a triumph on his return to Rome, he remained outside the city till the Catilinarian conspiracy broke out in 63, when the Senate sent him to Faesulae to watch the movements of C. Mallius or Manlius, Catiline's general (Sulla , Cat. 32).