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Friday, May 3rd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
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Bible Encyclopedias

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Search Results: "marcellus

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Marcellus, Claudius
Roman general; in a war with the Gauls killed their chief Viridomarus with his own hands, whose spoils he dedicated as spolia opima (q. v .) to Jupiter;
Marcellus, Marcus
son of octavia, the sister of augustus, who had named him his heir; his decease at 20 was mourned as a public calamity, and inspired virgil to pen his well-known lament over his death in the sixth book of the "æneid."
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Julia
daughter and only child of augustus cæsar; celebrated for her beauty and the dissoluteness of her morals, and became the wife in succession of marcellus, agrippa, and tiberius.
Octavia
The sister of Augustus, a woman distinguished for her beauty and her virtue; was married first to Marcellus, and on his death to Mark Antony, who forsook
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