Quintus Marcius Rex

Quintus Marcius Rex was a member of the old Roman Plebejergeschlechts the Marcii Reges and 118 BC consul.

Life

According to the testimony of Triumphalakten the father and grandfather of Quintus Marcius Rex also led the praenomen Quintus. Not later than 121 BC Quintus Marcius Rex should have held the praetorship, before 118 BC Marcus Porcius Cato rose together with the country's highest office.

Today Narbonne was founded during Marcius ' Rex term as consul under the name Narbo Martius as a Roman colony. Marcius Rex endured the death of his only, young son, who died just in his consular year 118 BC, with such mastery that he on the same day on which the funeral of his son was held, chaired a meeting of the senate. He fought in the Alps to the Ligurian tribe of the Stoener and was allowed to celebrate it as proconsul 117 BC a triumph. Later he was likely defendant in a court case, in which, however, his counsel, the famous orator Marcus Antonius, grandfather of the triumvir same name, was able to achieve an acquittal for him.

Marcius Rex was probably the brother of the 114 BC condemned vestal Marcia.