Marcia

, the wife of Regulus. When she heard that her husband had been put to death at Carthage in the most excruciating manner, she retorted the punishment, and shut up some Cart hag in i an prisoners in a barrel, which she had previously filled with sharp nails. The senate was obliged to stop the wantonne of her cruelty. Diodorus , bk. 24 .――A favourite of the emperor Commodus, whom he poisoned.――A vestal virgin, punished for her incontinence.――A daughter of Philip, who married Cato the censor. Her husband gave her to his friend Hortensius for the sake of procreating children, and after his death he took her again to his own house.――An ancient name of the island of Rhodes.――A daughter of Cato of Utica.――A stream of water. See: Martia aqua .