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Spurius Maelius ([?] - 439 BC)

Wealthy Roman plebeian who bought grain and sold it at a low price during a famine, was accused of courting the people to set himself up as a king, and executed. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-3859?rskey=uxEtqi&result=1&q=spurius Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurius_Maelius References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) 447 ROMA. Caput Romæ, in obverso. C. SERVILIus M F. cum sp. Melio et C. Servilio Ahala, equestris ordinis, pugnantibus. Ib. p. 241. Ar. On the obverse the head of Roma; on the reverse Sp. Melius and C. Servilius fighting on horseback. Orsini 1577, p. 241.