I.the family name of the poet P. Vergilius, Lact. 1, 15, 12: “ingenium sacri miraris abesse Maronis: Sint Maecenates, non deerunt, Flacce, Marones,” Mart. 8, 56, 5: “summus,” id. 12, 4, 1: “altisonus,” Juv. 11, 180.—Transf., a statue of Virgil, Juv. 7, 227.—Hence,
A. Mă-rōnēus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Virgil, Maronian, Virgilian: “templum,” Stat. S. 4, 4, 55.—
B. Mărōnĭā-nus , a, um, adj., Maronian, Virgilian: “culex,” Stat. S. 2, 7, 74: “stilus,” Sid. Ep. 8, 1 in carm.