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

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