CAIUS LICINIUS, a Roman historian, and father of the orator Caius Licinius Calvus, was probably born about 110 B.C. After holding the quaestorship, he was elected a tribune of the people in 73 B.C., and subsequently became praetor and governor of a province. In 66 B.C. he was arraigned by Cicero under the law De Repeptandis, and dreading lest the verdict should be dammatory, and should involve his family in loss and disgrace, he put an end to his existence. The merits of Macer as an author can scarcely be determined by the few stray quotations from his Annales found in ancient authors; but he is supposed by Niebuhr to have displayed accurate and extensive research, and to have supplied abundant materials both to Livy and Dionysius.