Maecilia

plebeian. Only two members of it are mentioned under the republic.

1. L. Maecilius, one of those tribunes of the plebs who were chosen for the first time in the comitia tributa, B. C. 471. (Liv. 2.58.)

2. Sp. Maecilius, chosen for the fourth time tribune of the plebs, B. C. 416. (Liv. 4.48.)

In the time of Augustus we find the name of M. Maecilius Tullus, a triumvir of the mint, on many coins (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 240); and at length not long before the downfall of the Roman empire in the west a Maecilius obtained the imperial dignity. [Avitus, Maecilius.]