 The relation of this case to the "Lex Scantinia" is vexed, since a Roman law was named after its proposer, and never a defendant.Like his coevals, Marcellus fought in the Second Punic War, probably accompanying his father on various military campaigns, including the famous campaign against Syracuse.He was military tribune under his father, when the two consuls were ambushed in 208 BC resulting in his father's death and the other consul's severe injury.