Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

He acquired much favor with the Emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor on 25 February 138, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, who afterwards became the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

In 138, Hadrian resolved to adopt Antoninus Pius if he would in turn adopt Marcus Aurelius and Aelius ' son Lucius Verus as his own eventual successors.

Other relatives included his aunt Julia Avita Mamaea and uncle Marcus Julius Gessius Marcianus and their son Alexander Severus.

He was the homonymous and thus presumably the eldest son of Marcus Antonius Creticus ( praetor 74 BC, proconsul 73 – 71 BC ) and grandson of the noted orator Marcus Antonius ( consul 99 BC, censor 97 – 6 BC ) who had been murdered during the Marian Terror of the winter of 87 – 6 BC.

But his elder son, Marcus Antonius Antyllus, was killed by Octavian's men while pleading for his life in the Caesareum.

Verus ' elder son — Marcus Aurelius ' father — Marcus Annius Verus ( III ) married Domitia Lucilla.

Lucilla and Verus ( III ) had two children: a son, Marcus, born on 26 April 121, and a daughter, Annia Cornificia Faustina, probably born in 122 or 123.

* 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.

* 36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.

Trajan was the son of Marcia and Marcus Ulpius Traianus, a prominent senator and general from the gens Ulpia.

The last quarter of the century saw the end of the period of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana at the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, last of the " Five Good Emperors ", and the accession of his ineffective and deranged son Commodus.

* Marcus Claudius Marcellus, son of Octavia and nephew of Augustus ( b. 42 BC )

* Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus, son of Julia the Elder and grandson of Augustus ( d. AD 14 )

* Judea is returned piecemeal to Agrippa I's son Marcus Julius Agrippa between 48 and 54.

* Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's adopted son, supposedly killed him

He was the son of Gaius Julius Asinius Quadratus, brother of Gaius Asinius Rufus ( b. ca 160 ) and Gaius Asinius Quadratus Protimus ( b. ca 165 ), Proconsul of Achaea ca.

* Marcus Claudius M. f. M. n. Marcellus Aeserninus, son of the consul of 22 BC ; he was trained as an orator by his grandfather, Gaius Asinius Pollio.

* Gaius Asinius Rufus, notable in Lydia 134 / 135, senator 136-probably the son of Gaius Asinius Frugi

He was the son of Gaius Asinius Pollio, a Roman Senator and consul 40 BC.

Another descendant or otherwise relative, Gaius Asinius Lepidus Praetextatus ( 210 – after 242 ), became a Consul in 242, being the son of Gaius Asinius Lepidus, Suffect Consul of Rome in 222 and wife ( Vettia ) ( b. 190 or 195 ).

Asinius Gallus never denied his paternity of the son of Tiberius and Vipsania, Julius Caesar Drusus, heir from 19 AD to 23 AD, which means that he might also have been the father of the child Vipsania was expecting on her divorce.

In 11 BC she married Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus, a Senator and son of the famous orator Gaius Asinius Pollio.

Another descendant or otherwise relative, Gaius Asinius Lepidus Praetextatus ( 210 – after 242 ), became a Consul in 242, being the son of Gaius Asinius Lepidus, Suffect Consul of Rome in 222 and wife ( Vettia ) ( b. 190 or 195 ).

Bellarmine was born at Montepulciano, the son of noble, albeit impoverished, parents, Vincenzo Bellarmino and his wife Cinzia Cervini, who was sister of Pope Marcellus II.

A member of the Severan Dynasty, he was Syrian on his mother's side, the son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus.

Born into a noble Roman family in the year 669, Gregory was the son of Marcellus and Honesta.

Virgil is said to have recited Books 2, 4 and 6 to Augustus ; the mention of her son, Marcellus, in book 6 apparently caused Augustus ' sister Octavia to faint.

A group of officers of the city's garrisons ( Zosimus calls them Marcellianus, Marcellus and Lucianus ) turned to Maxentius to accept the imperial purple, probably judging that the official recognition which was granted to Constantine would not be withheld from Maxentius, son of an emperor as well.

In the year 23 BC, Emperor Augustus recounted that Hannibal had allowed Marcellus a proper funeral and even sent the ashes back to Marcellus ’ son.

The borough hall and the train station were donated to the community by Geraldine R. Dodge and Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr. as a memorial to their son who died in an automobile crash shortly after his graduation from Princeton University.

* Marcus Claudius M. f. M. n. Marcellus, son of the consul of 166 BC.

* Gaius Claudius M. f. Marcellus, son of the conspirator, he also took part in Catiline's conspiracy, and attempted to instigate a slave revolt at Capua, but was driven out by Publius Sestius, and took refuge in Bruttium, where he was put to death.

** Marcus Claudius Marcellus ( consul 196 BC ), son of the last

Neratius Marcellus was the son of Neratius Pansa, who had been suffect consul around AD 75.

He raised Atia's children alongside his own son and daughter from a previous marriage and arranged Octavia's first marriage, to the consul and senator Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor.

He was thought to have had a son, also called Ulpius Marcellus, serving as governor around thirty years later, although this is based on a misdated inscription and the existence of a second Marcellus is now discounted.

He was supposed to be the son of Ulpius Marcellus, governor of Britannia during the reign of Commodus.

* Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior was son of another Gaius and first cousin of C. Claudius Marcellus Minor.

" Elagabalus " was son of Sextus Varius Marcellus, a Syrian, and Julia Soaemis, daughter of Julia Maesa ( the younger sister of Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus ); he was therefore nephew of the late " Caracalla ", whose natural son he claimed to be ( note that he took the same name as Caracalla upon donning the purple ).

Hosidia and Marcellus had a son called Gaius Vitorius Hosidius Geta and a daughter Vitoria, wife of Lucius Septimius Severus and mother of Publius Septimius Geta.

Marcus Claudius Marcellus ( 42 BC – 23 BC ) was the eldest son of Octavia Minor, sister of Augustus, and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor, a former consul.