• Octavius Maecius, according to some accounts,^[i] leader of the allied cavalry in 293 BC, during the Third Samnite War. He employed a clever ruse to make his forces appear far more substantial than they in fact were, alarming the Samnite army.^[2]
• Spurius Maecius Tarpa, a contemporary of Cicero, whom Pompeius hired to select the plays performed at his games in 55 BC. At a later date, Octavian relied on him for his opinion of drama.^[3][4][5]
• Quintus Maecius, a Roman poet, known only from his twelve epigrams in the Greek Anthology, which are some of the finest in the collection.^[6][7][8]
• Marcus Maecius Rufus, proconsul of Bithynia, and consul suffectus during the reign of Vespasian.^[9]
• Lucius Maecius Postumus, consul suffectus in AD 98.
• Lucius Roscius Aelianus Maecius Celer, consul suffectus in AD 100.
• Marcus Maecius Celer, consul suffectus in AD 101.
• Maecius Marullus, named by the Historia Augusta as the father of the emperor Gordian I.
• Quintus Maecius Laetus, consul in AD 215; he had previously been consul in an uncertain year.
• Marcus Pomponius Maecius Probus, consul in AD 228.^[10]
• Marcus Maecius Memmius Furius Placidus, consul in AD 343.^[1]
• Rufius Achilius Maecius Placidus, consul in AD 481.

List of Roman gentes

• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares.
• Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Satirae (Satires), Ars Poëtica (The Art of Poetry).
• Julius Capitolinus, "The Lives of the Three Gordians", in the Historia Augusta.
• Jan Gruter, Inscriptiones Antiquae Totius Orbis Romani, Heidelberg (1603).
• Johann Albert Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, sive Notitia Scriptorum Veterum Graecorum (The Greek Library, or Knowledge of Ancient Greek Writers), Christian Liebezeit & Theodor Christoph Felginer, Hamburg (1718).
• Analecta Veterum Poetarum Graecorum (Fragments by Ancient Greek Poets), Richard François Philippe Brunck, ed., Bauer and Treuttel, Strasbourg (1772–1776).
• Anthologia Graeca sive Poetarum Graecorum Lusus, ex Recensione Brunckii (The Greek Anthology, or Works of the Greek Poets, or the Collection of Brunck), Friedrich Jacobs, ed., Dyck, Leipzig (1794).
• Poëtarum Latinorum Reliquiae (Surviving Works of Latin Poets), M. Augustus Weichert, ed., B. G. Teubner, Leipzig (1830).
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70–96", in Classical Quarterly, vol. 31 (1981).