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

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