Maridianvs



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    MARIDIANVS.----Caius Cossutius, a very rich man, seems to have adopted Maridius, who, according to the custom of those who were adopted, lengthened out the name, and was called Maridianus.----C. MARIDIANVS, who is read on the denarii of Julius Caesar, was of the Cossutia family, that is of the equestrian order.----As one of the monetary triumvirs, he placed the figure of Venus Victrix on Julius 's coins, to indicate the latter 's pretensions to divine origin.

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