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Marium

Marium is a Latin form of mare, meaning “sea”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of Marius, “Marius (C. Marius, general and seven times consul, 157–86 BC)”. It is the genitive plural neuter adjective or genitive plural masculine adjective or accusative singular masculine adjective or nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 93 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.209: … ominum auctoritatem pugnare non potero. an, cum eos non poteris, proferes hos recentis, Q. Catulum patrem, C. Marium, Q. Scaevolam, M. Scaurum, Q. Metellum? qui omnes provincias habuerunt et frumentum cellae nomine imperaverun …

Cicero, De Lege Agraria 3.6: … legibus spem non nullam cui ademptum est, aliquem scrupulum cui datum est. Rulli cautio est haec: qvi post C. Marivm Cn. Papirivm consvles. quam procul a suspicione fugit, quod eos consules qui adversarii Sullae maxime fuerunt …

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.3.13: Additur etiam generare feminas seminibus illitas marium, feruntque eas amore mutuo delectari, hocque inde clarere, quod contra se vicissim nutantes, ne turgidis quid …

All forms of mare (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.