Marcus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
grandchildren · that most winning boy
in the texts
Consolation to Helvia
Seneca's nephew, Helvia's grandson, presented as a source of joy and consolation.
Whose mind, drawn tight with anxiety, would his prattle not loosen?
I pray the gods that it may be our lot to have this child survive us!
From these turn your gaze also to your grandchildren—to Marcus, that most winning boy, at sight of whom no sadness can hold out;
Adversus Valentinianos
A stock example name used satirically by Tertullian for an ordinary male Valentinian believer.
Such useful fables—that Marcus or Gaius, in this flesh, bearded and with all these things, a stern husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather—certainly, what is enough, a male—should, in the bridal chamber of the Pleroma, by an angel—I have said it already by keeping silent—and perhaps you may bear some Aeon Onesimus!
De Carnis Resurrectione
Heretical teacher grouped with Menander as attributing the body's creation to angels.
This useless and trifling little body, which they do not even shrink from calling an evil — though it had been the work of angels (as Menander and Marcus would have it), though it were the construction of some fiery angel as well (as Apelles teaches) — would suffice, by the patronage of a second divinity, to establish the authority of the flesh.