Name of a Roman plebeian family of little political significance except for L. M. [I 3], the destroyer of Corinth.
I. Republican period
[I 1] Author of Atellan farces, propably Augustan
According to Pomponius Bononiensis and Novius [I 1], who presumably lived about 90 BC, M. revived the atellan farces, which had laid dormant for some time (Macrob. Sat. 1,10,3). His Old Latin metre (use of iambic shortening) and language (abl. testu) suggest that he probably did not …