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GAIUS MAENIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GAIUS
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MAENIUS  ,
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Roman statesman and
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general . Having completed (when
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consul in 338 B.C.) the subjugation of
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Latium, which with
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Campania had revolted against
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Rome, he was honoured by a
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triumph, and a
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column was erected to him in the
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Forum . When
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censor in 318, in
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order that the spectators might have more
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room for seeing the
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games that were celebrated in the Forum, he provided the buildings in the neighbourhood with balconies, which were called after him maeniana . See
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Festus, s.v . Maeniana;
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Livy viii . 13, ix . 34;
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Pliny, Nat . Hist. xxxiv . 11 (5) .

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