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Marion

Μαρίων

(Μαρίων), tyrant of Tyre, which position he obtained through the favour of Cassius, when the latter was in Syria, B. C. 43. Having invaded Galilee, he made himself master of three forts in that country, but was again expelled from it by Herod. (J. AJ 14.12. § l, B.J. 1.12.2.)

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.