Marcius Censorinus was a name used by a branch of theplebeiangens Marcia ofancient Rome. Thecognomen Censorinus was acquired throughGaius Marcius Rutilus, the first plebeiancensor, whose son used it. The gens Marcia claimed descent from bothAncus Marcius, aking of Rome, and symbolically fromMarsyas the satyr, who was associated with free speech andpolitical liberty; see further discussion atProphecy and free speech at Rome. The Marcii Censorini were consistentpopulares, supportingMarius,Cinna,Julius Caesar, andAntonius.

• Lucius Marcius Censorinus wascurule aedile in 160 BC,praetor by 152,consul in 149, andcensor in 147. He was the son of a Gaius Marcius Censorinus.
• Gnaeus Marcius Censorinus was atribune of the plebs in 122 BC.
• Gaius Marcius Censorinus was atriumvir monetalisc. 88 BC. In 87, as amilitary tribune orprefect, he commanded the cavalry that attacked and killed the consulGnaeus Octavius, then brought his head toCinna; the historianAppian remarks^[1] that this was the first time a consul's head was displayed on theRostra, but unfortunately not the last. In 82, near the end of the civil war betweenSulla and theMarian-Cinnan faction,Carbo sent Censorinus with eightlegions to the aid of the besiegedPraeneste, but he was ambushed byPompeius nearSena Gallica. After Carbo fled to Africa, Censorinus was among the officers who made a last-ditch effort to break Sulla's line that culminated in defeat at theBattle of the Colline Gate.^[2]

• Lucius Marcius Censorinus^[3] was a moneyerc. 82 BC, and an officer, perhapsprefect of thefleet, in 70; see alsoDenarius of L. Censorinus (pictured above).
• Censorinus, a friend ofPublius Crassus who died with him fighting atCarrhae, was almost certainly a Marcius.
• Lucius Marcius Censorinus, whose father had the same name, was praetor in 43 BC and a partisan ofMarcus Antonius. He wasproconsul of theprovinces ofMacedonia andAchaea 42–40 BC. In 39 BC he was consul withCalvisius Sabinus, and one of thequindecimviri sacris faciundis in 17 BC.
• Gaius Marcius Censorinus was consul in 8 BC. He was proconsul of theprovince of Asiac. 3 BC, and was honored as patron and benefactor by the people ofMiletus.^[4] He died in his province in 2 AD.^[5]

Unless otherwise noted, dates, offices and citations of ancient sources are fromT.R.S. Broughton,The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1; vol. 2 (1952); vol. 3 (1986); abbreviatedMRR.

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