Lewis & Short

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1. Măro, ōnis, m. [from root smar-, to be thoughtful; cf. memor], the family name of the poet P. Vergilius, Lact. 1, 15, 12: ingenium sacri miraris abesse Maronis: Sint Maecenates, non deerunt, Flacce, Marones, Mart. 8, 56, 5: summus, id. 12, 4, 1: altisonus, Juv. 11, 180.
Transf., a statue of Virgil, Juv. 7, 227.
Hence,

  1. A. Mă-rōnēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Virgil, Maronian, Virgilian: templum, Stat. S. 4, 4, 55.
  2. B. Mărōnĭā-nus, a, um, adj., Maronian, Virgilian: culex, Stat. S. 2, 7, 74: stilus, Sid. Ep. 8, 1 in carm.

2. Măro, ōnis, m., a mountain in Sicily, near the river Himera, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 88 (dub.; Jan., ad Maroneum et Gemellos colles).

3. Măro, ōnis, m., = Μἀρων,

  1. I. the companion and instructor of the youthful Bacchus: terra Thraeca, ubi Liberi fanum inclutum Maro locavit, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 14 Müll. (Trag. Rel. v. 170 Vahl.); Fulg. Myth. 2, 15.
  2. II. Transf., v. l. Prop. 3, 30, 14 (al. leg. Anione), as the name of a statue beside a spring, prob. a Silenus (v. Herzb. Com. in Prop. 2, 32, 14).