A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

6. A sister of the preceding, was the wife of the younger Marius. Hence we find the elder Marius spoken of as the affinis of the orator Crassus (Cic. pro Balb. 21, de Orat. 1.15.66, 3.2.8). An impostor of the name of Amatius or Herophilus, pretended to have sprung from this marriage. [AMATIUS.]