Titus Geganius Macerinus (fl.c. 492 BC) was aRoman politician who served asconsul in 492 BC withPublius Minucius Augurinus.^[1]

The consuls were required to deal with afamine which had taken hold of Rome and they focused their efforts on obtaining grain shipments from aroundItaly. The famine arose because theplebeian farmers had not sown their fields during thesecession of the plebs which ended the previous year. Envoys were sent by ship to buy grain from the coastal towns ofEtruria, theVolsci and others to the south as far asCumae. Because many of Rome's neighbours bore the Romans animosity from past military conflicts, envoys were even sent as far asMagna Graecia (Sicily). Grain was purchased in Cumae, however the tyrantAristodemus (who had been made the heir of the exiled Roman kings) seized the Roman ships on account of the property of theTarquinii which had been seized by theRoman Republic when the king's family had been exiled. Roman attempts to buy grain were also thwarted in the territory of the Volsci, including thePomptine Marshes. Because ofrecent wars with Rome, the grain merchants were threatened with violence if grain was sold to the Romans. However, grain was successfully obtained from Etruria and transported to Rome down theTiber river. An even greater amount of grain was imported the following year from Sicily, and the question of how it should be distributed amongst the Roman citizens led to the exile and defection ofGaius Marcius Coriolanus.^[1]

Also in 492 BC, hostilities with the Volsci threatened Rome. However a pestilence spread amongst the Volsci and war was averted. The Romans took steps to protect their position. Additional Roman colonists were sent to the town ofVelitrae, and a newRoman colony was established atNorba.^[1]

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