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Martius may refer to:
- an adjectival form of the theonym Mars in Latin:
- Campus Martius, the "Field of Mars" in ancient Rome
- Martius (month) the month of March on the ancient Roman calendar
- Telo Martius, an ancient name for Toulon, France
People named Martius:
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), German botanist
- Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888–1966), German phenomenologist
Other:
- Dryocopus martius, the black woodpecker
- Martius yellow, a chemical compound and dye
- Trachycarpus martianus, also known as Martius' fan palm
- in chemistry, the Hofmann-Martius rearrangement
Martius or mensis Martius (" March)" was the first month of the ancient Roman year until possibly as late as 153 BC. After that time, it was the third month, following Februarius ( February) and preceding Aprilis ( April). Martius was one of the few Roman months named for a deity, Mars, who was regarded as an ancestor of the Roman people through his sons Romulus and Remus.
March marked a return to the active life of farming, military campaigning, and sailing. It was densely packed with religious observances dating from the earliest period of Roman history. Because of its original position as the first month, a number of festivals originally associated with the new year occurred in March. In the Imperial period, March was also a time for public celebration of syncretic or international deities whose cultus was spread throughout the empire, including Isis and Cybele.
Usage examples of "martius".
Not as he did now, looking at the seven hills asprawl with orange-tiled roofs, glitters of gold from gilded temple eaves, tall cypresses, umbelliferous pines, arched aqueducts, the deep blue and strongly flowing width of Father Tiber with the grassy plains of Martius and Vaticanus on either bank.
Tiber rose just enough to ensure that some of the public latrines backfilled and floated excrement out of their doors, a vegetable shortage developed when the Campus Martius and the Campus Vaticanus were covered with a few inches of water, and shoddily built high-rise insulae began to crumble into total collapse or suddenly manifested huge cracks in walls and foundations.
Clivus Argentarius, through the Fontinalis Gate beyond which lay the mansion which had once belonged to Gaius Marius, and down to the Campus Martius.
Put one cohort at the Port of Rome, the Campus Lanatarius, the Piscinae Publicae, the Porta Capena, the Circus Maximus, the Forum Boarium, the Forum Holitorium, the Velabrum, the Circus Flaminius, and the Campus Martius.
Campus Martius on its way to the Mulvian Bridge, and the Via Recta bisected it at right angles to the Via Lata.
But to Jugurtha it was a small view, and when the wind was right the stench of the nightsoil fertilizing the market gardens of the outer Campus Martius around the Via Recta was strong enough to make him wish he had elected to live further out, somewhere around Bovillae or Tusculum.
Etrurian patera, and the cover of a copper pot no other than the shield of Ancus Martius.
Forum frequenters had preferred to rush out to the Campus Martius to see what the Caesars were doing to Gaius Rabirius.
And from there it would be on to the Campus Martius, where the body would be burned, several hundred litters of aromatics bought at state expense to fuel the pyre.
And the day after that, we will all go out to the Campus Martius to see the candidates for consuls and praetors declare themselves.
They issued the chits from their booth in the Porticus Metelli on the Campus Martius, but the grain itself was stored in huge silos lining the cliffs of the Aventine along the Vicus Portae Trigeminae at the Port of Rome.
He threw open to the homeless hordes the great public buildings, temples, and basilicas in the Campus Martius.
He prophesied when Josiah reigned in Jerusalem, and Ancus Martius at Rome, when the captivity of the Jews was already at hand.
Jeremiah thus prophesied not only in the times of Ancus Martius, but also in those of Tarquinius Priscus, whom the Romans had for their fifth king.