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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Macri'nus
Roman emperor, April, A. D. 217--June, A. D. 218. M. OPELIUS (OR OPILIUS) MACRINUS, afterwards M. OPELIUS SEVERUS MACRINUS, at whose instigation Caracalla was assassinated, when marching to encounter the Parthians, was a native of Caesareia in Mauritania, and was born of very humble parents, in the year A. D. 164. Having been recommended to the notice of Plautianus, the all-powerful favourite of Septimius Severus, he was admitted into his employment, and narrowly escaped being involv educed them from their allegiance by lavish offers, induced them to receive the boy into their camp, and to acknowledge him as their prince. Macrinus advanced to Antioch to crush the impostor, but after an engagement, fought on the 8th of June, A. D. 218, in which great cowardice was displayed on both sides, the fortune of the day having been eventually decided by the energy and bold example of Maesa and Soemias, he was compelled to fly, and, casting away his royal robes, reached Chalcedon disg
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Merca'tor, Ma'rius
distinguished among ecclesiastical writers as a most zealous antagonist of the Pelagians and the Nestorians, appears to have commenced his literary career during the pontificate of Zosimus, A. D. 218, at Rome.
There he drew up a discourse against the opinions of Coelestius, which he transmitted to Africa and received in reply an epistle from St. Augustin, still extant (Ep. cxciii. ed. Bened.). Having repaired to Constantinople about ten years afterwards, for the purpose of counteracting the designs of the banished Julianus [JULIANIUS DIDIUS], he presented his Commonitorium to Theodosius.
He then became deeply involved in the controversy regarding the Incarnation, and in this found active occupation for the remainder of his life, which must have extended beyond the middle of the fifth century, since we find mention made in his writings of the Eutychians, whose name does not appear among the catalogue of heretics, until after the council of Chalcedon, held in 451.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Messalla, Si'lius
was consul suffectus from the 1st of May, A. D. 193, and was the person who formally announced to the senate the deposition of Didius Julianus and the elevation of Septimius Severus.
He is apparently the Messalla who stands in the Fasti as consul for A. D. 214, and who subsequently (A. D. 218) fell a sacrifice to the jealous tyranny of Elagabalus. (D. C. 73.17, 79.5.) [W.R]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
U'lpius Julia'nus
was employed to take the census under Caracalla, and was praefectus praetorio under Macrinus.
He was sent to Antioch to put down the rebellion of Elagabalus, but was slain by his own troops, A. D. 218. (D. C. 78.4, 15; Herodian. 5.4.5 : Capitol. Macrin. 10.