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.
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.