Marcellus
historical figure · 10 works · 18 mentions · 23 anchored passages
M. Claudius Marcellus · Marcellus the Centurion · the one who was three times consul
spoken of as
3 expressionsMarcellus of Ancyra2 mentions
Letters (Greek)
Thus even Marcellus dared — impiously denying the subsistence of our Lord Jesus Christ and interpreting him as a mere word — to allege that he had taken the starting-points of his teaching from there, wrongly interpreting the meaning of the term "of one substance.
Marcellus the Centurion1 mention
The Rights of War and Peace (English)
About the same time Marcellus the Centurion, Severian under Licinius.
Marcellus the Galatian1 mention
Letters (Greek)
Sabellius the Libyan and Marcellus the Galatian alone of all men dared both to teach and to write these things, which now among you those who lead the people attempt to bring forward as their own discoveries, stammering with their tongue, and not even capable of leading these sophisms and false reasonings into a plausible construction.
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Letters
Figure whose case the Western church mishandled, cited as precedent for their current suspicion.
Those men neither know the truth nor endure to learn it, but, preoccupied with false suspicions, they now do those things which they did before in the case of Marcellus—quarrelling with those who reported the truth to them, while they confirmed the heresy by themselves.
but against Marcellus, who showed forth an impiety diametrically opposed to his, and was impious against the very existence of the Only-begotten's Godhead, and wrongly understood the title of the Word, they appear to bring no censure at all.
Sabellius the Libyan and Marcellus the Galatian alone of all men dared both to teach and to write these things, which now among you those who lead the people attempt to bring forward as their own discoveries, stammering with their tongue, and not even capable of leading these sophisms and false reasonings into a plausible construction.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman commander who died at Venusia fighting for Rome.
Spain would not have seen the Scipios falling for their country in a single war, nor Cannae Paulus and Geminus, Venusia Marcellus, Litana Albinus, Lucania Gracchus.
But far more slowly will fame forsake Curius, Fabricius, Calatinus, the two Scipios, the two Africani, Maximus, Marcellus, Paulus, Cato, Laelius, and others past number;
nor that Marcellus at Clastidium was brave because he was angry.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman general.
“The rights of war, says Marcellus in Livy, support me in all that I have done against the enemy.
Thus Livy mentions the ornaments of the temples, which Marcellus brought from Syracuse to Rome, as acquisitions made by the right of war.
In his speech too for Marcellus, he remarks that such uncertainty might be attended with error, but could never be charged with guilt.
On Fate
Roman consul (three times) whose death at sea is used to argue that a proposition can be eternally true without having discoverable causes, hence unknowable even to Apollo.
For with a view to what could the god himself declare that Marcellus—the one who was three times consul—was going to perish at sea?
On the Commonwealth
Roman general characterized as keen and warlike, contrasted with Fabius Maximus.
[Nonius, 337M] Marcellus, as keen and warlike;
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman figure of the Second Punic War, cited as favored by divine help
in the second, Maximus, Marcellus, Africanus;
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman jurist whose opinion, recorded in the Digest, is cited on witness competency for a soldier's will.
Et Marcellus libro decimo Digestorum scribit posse:
Consolation to Helvia
Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman exile at Mytilene admired for bearing his banishment with equanimity, whose recall was sought by the senate.
Now, behold, Africa, full of the threats of a war rising again, draws him to itself;
Do you doubt that that Marcellus, so great a man, often exhorted himself thus to bear his exile with an even mind:
Well, then, did Marcellus bear his exile, and the change of place changed nothing in his mind, although poverty followed it.
Consolation to Marcia
Son of Octavia and nephew/son-in-law of Augustus, who died young and was mourned excessively by his mother.
Most at home with darkness and solitude, not even turning her eyes toward her brother, she rejected the poems composed to celebrate the memory of Marcellus and the other honours of letters, and closed her ears against all comfort.
Octavia lost Marcellus, on whom both his uncle and his father-in-law had begun to lean, on whom the burden of empire was to rest—a youth quick of spirit, mighty in talent, yet of a frugality and self-command not to be admired but greatly, considering his years or his fortune;
The Law of Torts
Roman jurist cited for the doctrine that intent to harm a neighbour affects liability for interference with a spring.
” The Roman lawyers on the other hand allowed that “animus vicino nocendi” did or might make a difference.