id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6797 Marius Maximus - Wikipedia .html text/html 1605 138 60 Marius's work is lost, but it was still being read in the late 4th century and was used as a source by writers of that era, notably the author of the Historia Augusta. It is more or less agreed that Marius Maximus the biographer is identical with one of the most successful senators of the Severan dynasty whose career is known from inscriptions, namely Lucius Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus, twice consul and once Prefect of the City of Rome.[1] His family may have hailed from Africa and was not senatorial; his father, L. Then, between the years 213 and 217, Marius Maximus became the first ex-consul ever to hold both the Proconsulship of Asia, and that of Africa, in succession. Although he held no post during the reign of Elagabalus, under Alexander Severus he was made consul for a second time in AD 223, alongside Lucius Roscius Aelianus Paculus Salvius Julianus. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6797.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6797.txt