(anc. geog.) a town of Germany: now Hamburg, a famous trading city on the Elbe, in Lower Saxony, in the duchy of Holstein. Another Marionis (Ptolemy), thought to be Wismar, a town of Lower Saxony, in the duchy of Mecklenburg.

MARIOTTE (Edme), an eminent physician and mathematician, was born in Burgundy, and was made a member of the academy of sciences. He died in 1684. His works, which are much esteemed, were printed at Leyden in 1717, 2 vols 4to.