Quintus Marcius Rex (consul 68 BC)

Quintus Marcius Rex ( * before 110 BC; † prior to May 15, 61 BC) was a Roman politician of the late Republic.

The brother of Publius Clodius Pulcher, whose eldest sister Clodia he had married, was in the year 68 BC, consul, partly as the sole incumbent, because his colleague Lucius Caecilius Metellus and his successor died as Suffektkonsul early in the year. Thereafter, 67-66 BC, he was proconsul in Cilicia, which the Senate Lucullus had withdrawn. Here Marcius Rex led a military expedition against the pirates based there through, a problem that was solved by Pompey in 67 BC for the time being. He took a position in the Syrian succession dispute that time, through his support gained Philip II Barypous the throne. In Antioch he developed a lively construction activity, especially after the devastating earthquake of 69 BC

After his replacement by Pompey demanded Marcius Rex, who had been proclaimed by his soldiers to the Emperor, a triumph, but was denied him, so he had to wait several years in Italy, to be able to enter without Rome, because otherwise he the opportunity to triumph would have lost. During the Catiline conspiracy in 63 BC, he was sent to Faesulae in Etruria and fought against the conspirators Gaius Manlius. There is no evidence that he was able to celebrate his triumph. He died before May 15, 61 BC