This article is about the Roman emperor Macrinus. For the addressee of many of Pliny the Younger's Epistles, see Minucius Macrinus. Marcus Opellius Macrinus (ca. 165 - June 218) was Romanemperor for fourteen months in 217 and 218. Macrinus was the first emperor to become so without membership in the senatorial class and the first emperor of Moorish descent.
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