Marīca

, a nymph of the river Liris, near Minturnæ. She married king Faunus, by whom she had king Latin us, and she was afterwards called Fauna and Fatua, and honoured as a godde . A city of Camp an i a bore her name. Some suppose her to be the same as Circe. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 7 , li. 47 .— Livy , bk. 27 , ch. 37 .――A wood on the borders of Camp an i a bore also the name of Marica , as being sacred to the nymph. Livy , bk. 27 , ch. 37 .— Horace , bk. 3 , ode 17, li. 7 .