Marathos or -us, i, f., = Μάραθος, an ancient Phaenician city, opposite the island of Arados, near the modern Ainel-Hye, Mel. 1, 12, 3; Plin. 5, 20, 17, § 78; Curt. 4, 1, 6.

—Hence, Marathēnus, a, um, adj., of or from Marathos, Marathene: Menelaus, a rhetorician from Marathos, Cic. Brut. 26, 100 Meyer.