Marcellus

Family: Roman · Role: uncle of Germanicus · First appears: Annals II (7)

Annals II (7)

• younger kin: Germanicus “that his uncle Marcellus was snatched, in his youth, from the burning affections of the populace;”

Annals VI (7)

• rivals with Tiberius “he long struggled there with many potent rivals, during the lives of Marcellus and Agrippa;”

Histories I.14-16

• elder kin: Augustus “the sainted Augustus, who raised to the rank next himself first his nephew Marcellus”

Histories IV.5-8

• friends with Nero (Marcellus describes his relationship with Nero as friendship.) “Nero took a savage delight in farces like that trial, and, really, the friendship of such an emperor cost me as much anxiety as banishment did to others.”

Histories IV.43-46

• enemies with Helvidius “Beginning with a eulogy of Cluvius Rufus, who, though quite as rich and as eloquent as Marcellus, had never brought any one into trouble under Nero, he went on to attack Marcellus, both by contrasting him with Rufus and by pressing home the charge against him.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.