STOLO, cal' -vus ste-o, tribune of the plebs, 376-367 B.C., maintained, with his colleague L. Sextius, the plebeian struggle for equality, and succeeded in practically concluding it by passing, after ten years' agitation, the Licinian laws, which (a) abolished consular tribunes, and enacted that one of the consuls should be a plebeian ; (2)restricted each citizen to not more than Soo jugdra (about 26o English acres) of public land, and to feeding on the commons not more than too head of large and 500 of small cattle ; (3) regulated the relations of debtor and creditor, and (4) entrusted the Sibylline books to Decemviri, of whom half were to be plebeians. He was said to have been urged to insist on the consulship being thrown open to the plebeians by his wife, from her envy of the superior dignity of her sister, who had married a patrician who attained to the consulship. Licinius was consul 364 and 361, and was later fined for having broken the second of his own laws. a. C., MACER, ma'-cer,
an orator and annalist, killed himself when con demned for extortion on the impeachment of the praitor Cicero, 66 B.C. 3. C., MACER CALVUS, na-cer cal'-vus, son of (a), a cele brated orator and poet, commended by Catullus, Propertius, Ovid, and Quintilian ; was born about 8a B.C., and died in his 35th year. 4. C. FLAVIUS VALERIANUS, va,e,'-i-a'-nus, son of a Dalmatian peasant, distinguished himself in the army, and was raised by his. former comrade Galerius to a share on the Roman throne, A.D. 307, and assigned the dominion of the East ; he defeated Maximinus II., 314, but was himself defeated by his own father-in-law, Constantine, 315, by whom he was deposed, 323, and strangled at Thessalonica, LIGEA, 11-fi'-a, one of the Nereides.