In this, the emperor was assisted by five chief lawyers: L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, an author of legal treatises ; L. Volusius Maecianus, chosen to conduct the legal studies of Marcus Aurelius, and author of a large work on Fidei Commissa ( Testamentary Trusts ); L. Ulpius Marcellus, a prolific writer ; and two others.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Archimedes, the renowned mathematician, was said to have used a burning glass ( or more likely a large number of angled hexagonal mirrors ) as a weapon in 212 BC, when Syracuse was besieged by Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

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.

He was able to dislodge and exile three key opponents who espoused the First Council of Nicaea: Eustathius of Antioch in 330, Athanasius of Alexandria in 335 and Marcellus of Ancyra in 336.

Later, he became a legendary figure and the model of a tough, courageous Roman, and was bestowed the honorific title, " The Shield of Rome " ( similar to Marcus Claudius Marcellus being named the " Sword of Rome ").

Importantly, Syracuse was granted nominal independent ally status for the lifetime of Hiero II, and was not incorporated into the Roman province of Sicily until after it was sacked by Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Second Punic War.

Ulpius Marcellus was sent as replacement governor and by 184 he had won a new peace, only to be faced with a mutiny from his own troops.

Unhappy with Marcellus ' strictness, they tried to elect a legate named Priscus as usurper governor ; he refused, but Marcellus was lucky to leave the province alive.

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

Elagabalus was born around the year 203 to Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias Bassiana.

This turned out to be a tactical error, for he was left with insufficient forces to defend himself when a large contingent of Franks besieged the town and Julian was virtually held captive there for several months, until his general Marcellus deigned to lift the siege.

Constantius accepted Julian's report of events and Marcellus was replaced as magister equitum by Severus.

Pope Adrian VI was born in the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in the Low Countries, and he was the last non-Italian Pope until Pope John Paul II, 455 years later, and is, together with Pope Marcellus II, one of only two modern popes to retain his baptismal name after election.

At the beginning of the 7th century, there were probably twenty-five titular churches in Rome ; even granting that, perhaps, the compiler of the Liber Pontificalis referred this number to the time of Marcellus, there is still a clear historical tradition in support of his declaration that the ecclesiastical administration in Rome was reorganized by this pope after the great persecution.

Damasus relates that Marcellus was looked upon as a wicked enemy by all the lapsed, because he insisted that they should perform the prescribed penance for their guilt.

Marcellus died shortly after leaving Rome, and was venerated as a saint.

Lacking any male child and heir Augustus married his only daughter Julia to his nephew Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

Zenobia is said to have married a Roman governor and senator whose name is unknown, though there is reason to think it may have been Marcellus Petrus Nutenus.

* Octavia Minor and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor married.

However, as for the clergy and people of Constantinople an Arian was not eligible to become an emperor, at the news of the appointment riots broke out in the city hippodrome, led by the head of the Sleepless Monks, Marcellus: Aspar and Leo had to promise to the bishops that Patricius would convert to Orthodoxy before becoming emperor, and only after the conversion he would have married Leontia.

# Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge ( 1882 – 1973 ) married Marcellus Dodge

103 Catulus married Claudia ( probably of the Marcelli, daughter of Marius ' friend and legate M. Marcellus pr. c. 105 ) and finally elected cos. for 102 after three previous defeats.

* Marcus Claudius C. f. C. n. Marcellus, nephew of Augustus and stepson of Marcus Antonius ; he was adopted by his uncle and married to his cousin, Julia.

Following his first wife's death, he married Claudia Pulchra, daughter of Claudia Marcella Minor ( daughter of consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor and Octavia Minor, elder sister of Augustus ) and consul Aemilius Lepidus Paullus ( nephew of Triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus ).

* Julia C. f. C. n., daughter of Augustus by his second wife, Scribonia, married first Marcus Claudius Marcellus, second Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and lastly, the emperor Tiberius.

He married secondly Claudia Marcella Minor, daughter of Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor and Octavia Minor, without issue.

Green Clay married Sally Lewis in Kentucky in 1795 and was the father of Brutus J. Clay and Cassius Marcellus Clay.

Hosidia married Marcus Vitorius Marcellus, a man of consular rank and a friend of the poet Statius.

In 25 BC, at the age of fourteen, Julia married her cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus, who was some three years older than she.

*#*#* Marcellus, married Juliana, great-great-niece of Anastasius I

In 25 BC, Marcellus married Augustus ' only daughter, Julia the Elder, with Agrippa officiating in Augustus's absence.

Prior to Marcellus, the spolia opima was not of special importance in the minds of Romans because it had happened only twice before, if at all.

* A polemical treatise against Marcellus of Ancyra, the Against Marcellus, dating from about 337 ;

Marcellus of Sida, who wrote under the Antonines, gives an account of a disease which befell people in February ; but a pathological state seems to be meant.

* April – May – Emperor Valens defeats the troops of Procopius in the Battle of Thyatira, bringing an end to his revolt ; Serenianus and Marcellus are killed.

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.

Ulpius Marcellus was replaced as governor of Britain by Pertinax ; brought to Rome and tried for treason, Marcellus narrowly escaped death.

Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Scipio Africanus and his family, and Titus Quinctius Flamininus, may be taken as instances of the new civilization ; Cato's friends, Fabius and Flaccus, were the leading men in the faction defending the old plainness.

During the banquet, a drunken centurion insists that Marcellus wear Jesus ' robe ; reluctantly wearing the garment, Marcellus apparently suffers a nervous breakdown and returns to Rome.

Sent to Athens to recuperate, Marcellus finally gives in to Demetrius ' urging and touches the robe ; his mind is subsequently restored.

Marcellus was said to have been the first in his family to take on the cognomen of Marcellus ; yet there are genealogical records of his family line tracing the cognomen all the way back to 331 BC.

* Marcellus Boss, the 5th Civilian Governor of Guam ; former Kiowa city attorney.

At the time of the organization of the township the citizens wanted to call it Cambria ; however, since there was already a township by that name in Michigan, their Representative at that time, Judge Littlejohn of Allegan, proposed they name it after Roman Emperor Flavius Marcellus.

The first was in 752 BC by Romulus from Acro, king of the Caeninenses after the Rape of the Sabine Women ; the second by Aulus Cornelius Cossus from Lar Tolumnius, king of the Veientes ; the third by Marcus Claudius Marcellus from Viridomarus, king of the Gaesatae ( a Celtic warband ).

There is no doubt that Tauromenium continued to form a part of the kingdom of Syracuse until the death of Hieron, and that it only passed under the government of Rome when the whole island of Sicily was reduced to a Roman province ; but we have scarcely any account of the part it took during the Second Punic War, though it would appear, from a hint in Appian, that it submitted to Marcellus on favorable terms ; and it is probable that it was on that occasion it obtained the peculiarly favored position it enjoyed under the Roman dominion.

* 1362, January 16, Grote Mandrenke ( big drowner of men ) or Saint Marcellus flood, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, created a great part of the Wadden Sea and caused the end of the city of Rungholt ; 25, 000 to 40, 000 deaths, according to some sources 100, 000 deaths