macer and Mundungus are taken from Mr. Congreve's Epistle to Sir Richard Temple; So macer and Mundungus school the Times, And write in rugged Verse the softer Rules of Rhimes.
"An Essay on Criticism"
John Oldmixon
It is related that Licinius macer, a man himself of great power in the city, and supported also by the assistance of Crassus, was accused before him of extortion, and that, in confidence on his own interest and the diligence of his friends, whilst the judges were debating about the sentence, he went to his house, where hastily trimming his hair and putting on a clean gown, as already acquitted, he was setting off again to go to the Forum; but at his hall door meeting Crassus, who told him that he was condemned by all the votes, he went in again, threw himself upon his bed, and died immediately.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Many now began to revolt from Nero, and pretty nearly all adhered to Galba; only Clodius macer in Africa, and Virginius Rufus, commander of the German forces in Gaul, followed counsel of their own; yet these two were not of one and the same advice, for Clodius, being sensible of the rapines and murders to which he had been led by cruelty and covetousness, was in perplexity, and felt it was not safe for him either to retain or quit his command.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh