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MAELIUS, SPURIUS (d. 439 B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 298 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAELIUS, SPURIUS (d. 439 B.C.) , a wealthy Roman plebeian, who during a severe
famine
  bought up a large amount of corn and sold it at a low price to the people. Lucius (or Gaius) Minucius, the patrician praefectus annotate (president of the market), thereupon accused him of courting popularity with a view to making himself king. The cry was taken up. Maelius, summoned before the aged
Cincinnatus
  (specially appointed dictator), refused to appear, and was slain by Gaius Servilius Ahala; his
house
  was razed to the ground, his corn distributed amongst the people, and his property confiscated. The open space called Aequimaelium, on which his
house
  had stood, preserved the memory of his death. Cicero calls Ahala's deed a glorious one, but, whether Maelius entertained any ambitious projects or not, his summary execution was an act of murder, since by the Valerio-Horatian
laws
  the dictator was bound , to allow the right of appeal.
See
Niebuhr
 's History of Rome, ii. 418 (Eng. trans., 1831) ; G. Cornewall
Lewis
 , Credibility of early Roman History, ii.; Livy, iv. 13; Cicero, De senectute 16, De amicitia 8, De republica, ii. 27; Floras, i. 26;
Dion
 . Halic. xii. 1.


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