Results for macer

Definitions of macer:

An officer who carries the mace before persons in authority.

Usage examples for macer:

• Fonteius Capito, Governor of Lower Germany, Clodius Macer Governor of Africa, and Nymphidius Sabinus, Prefect of the Guard, murdered as possible rivals. "Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II", Caius Cornelius Tacitus

• It happened by chance that the news of the death of Clodius Macer 7 and of Fonteius Capito arrived in Rome simultaneously. "Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II", Caius Cornelius Tacitus

• Indeed, the taking off of Macer in Africa by Trebonius, and Fonteius by Valens in Germany, had a fair pretense, they being dreaded as armed commanders, having their soldiers at their bidding; but why refuse Turpilianus, an old man and unarmed, permission to try to clear himself, if any part of the moderation and equity at first promised were really to come to a performance? "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh