Madarus
spoken of by Cicero (Cic. Att. 14.2), is C. Matius, to whom he gives the surname Madarus (μαδαρός), on account of his baldness. He is usually called Calvena. [CALVENA.]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.