Sextus Marius

Tarpeian rock today

Sextus Marius (* probably in the 1st century BC; † 33 AD) was a very wealthy Spaniard who settled in Rome . His assets included gold and silver mines in southern Spain ( montes Mariani , today's Sierra Morena ) near Cordoba .

In the year 25 AD, at the time of the increasingly emerging majesty trials , Sextus Marius was charged by his compatriot Calpurnius Salvianus with an indictment at the deputy city prefect ( praefectus feriarum Latinarum ) Drusus Caesar during the multi-day Latin festival . Since Sextus Marius was on friendly terms with Emperor Tiberius and the submission of criminal cases to the short-term deputy during the Latin Festival was considered improper, the denunciation had no consequences for him. The informer was banished.

Presumably out of greed and because Sextus Marius is said to have withheld his daughter from Tiberius, he was tried at the instigation of the Princeps under the pretext of incest in AD 33. He and his daughter were thrown from the Tarpei Rock . His property was confiscated and fell to the imperial treasury.

literature

Otto Hiltbrunner : Sextus Marius II 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 1034.
Arthur Stein : Marius 28. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 2, Stuttgart 1930, Sp. 1821.

Remarks

↑ Tacitus , Annalen , 6, 19, 1 ; Pliny , Naturalis historia 34, 4.
↑ Tacitus, Annalen , 4, 36, 1 ; Cassius Dio , Roman History , 58, 22, 2-3 .
^ Wolfgang Kunkel , Roland Wittmann : State order and state practice of the Roman Republic. Second section: Die Magistratur , 2. Der praefectus urbi , Munich 1995 ISBN 3-406-33827-5 , pp. 274-276.
^ Tacitus, Annalen 6, 19, 1.

personal data
SURNAME	Marius, Sextus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish mine owner
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	33
Place of death	Rome

[1] Tacitus , Annalen , 6, 19, 1 ; Pliny , Naturalis historia 34, 4.

[2] Tacitus, Annalen , 4, 36, 1 ; Cassius Dio , Roman History , 58, 22, 2-3 .

[3] Wolfgang Kunkel , Roland Wittmann : State order and state practice of the Roman Republic. Second section: Die Magistratur , 2. Der praefectus urbi , Munich 1995 ISBN 3-406-33827-5 , pp. 274-276.

[4] Tacitus, Annalen 6, 19, 1.