Marcella
was a wife or mistress of the poet Martial, to whom he has addressed two epigrams (12.21, 31).
She was a native of Spain, and brought him as her dowry an estate. As Martial was married previously to Cleopatra (
Ep. 4.22, 11.43, 104), he espoused Marcella probably after his return to Spain about A. D. 96.
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