Quintus Marcius Rex (consul 68 BC)
Quintus Marcius Rex was a consul of the Roman Republic.
He was the grandson of another
Publius Clodius, refused to help Lucius Licinius Lucullus. He gave up his province in 66 BC to comply with the lex Manilia that gave command of the provinces of the east to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.[2]
He was denied a
Catilina
's general. He refused to listen to Manlius's offers of peace.
Marcius had married, Clodia Tertia, a sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher. He died in 61 BC, without leaving to his brother-in-law an expected inheritance.
References
- ^ Dio 36.4.1; Broughton, Magistrates vol. II p. 137
- ISBN 978-0-19-283266-5.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Rex, Marcius (5)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 646.
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