Drusus
relieved
the grants of public
jurist with our present No.
jurist with our present No.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
Augustus Caesar).
20. L. Scribonius Libo Drusus,
son of No. 8. ?
11. Nero Claudius Drusus
(senior), afterwards Drusus
Germanicus; married An-
tonia, minor.
i
12. Tiberius Nero Caesar
(emperor TIBERIUS); m.
1. Vipsania Agrippina.
13. Germanicus
Caesar; married
Agrippina.
14. Livia; 15. Ti. Claudius Drusus Caesar
m. 1. C. Caesar; (emperor CLAUDIUS); married
2. No. 16. 1. Urgulanilla.
16. Drusus Caesar (ju-
nior); died A. D. 23,
leaving a daugh. Julia
3
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DRUSUS.
1077
DRUSUS.
a
Julia
20. Agrippi-
|
17. Nero,
m. Julia,
daughter
of No. 16;
died A D. 30.
18. Dru-
sus; died
A. D. 33.
19. Caius Cae-
sar (emperor
CALIGULA);
m. 3. Cacsonia.
na, mother of
21. Drusilla ;
m. 1. L. Cassius,
2. M. Lepidus;
died A. D. 38.
22. Julia Livilla.
a 22. Three other
children; died
young.
23. Drusus;
died A. D.
20.
24. Claudia.
the emperor
Nexo.
Julia
25. Julia Drusila ; died A. D. 4).
OTHER DRUSI.
26. D. Drusus, Consul suffectus B. C. 137. ? (Dig. 1. tit. 13. §. 2. )
27. C. Drusus, historian. (Suet. Augustus, 94. )
sons
1. M. Livius Drusus, the father, natural or viii. 7), although his name is not mentioned by
adoptive, of No. 2. (Fast. Cupit. )
Pomponius in the fragment de Origine Juris. There
2. M. Livius M. f. Drusus AEMILIANUS, the is a passage in the Digest (19. tit. 1. s. 37. § 1),
father of No. 3. (Fast. Capit. ) Some modern where Celsus cites and approves an opinion, in
writers call him Mamilianus instead of Aemilianus, which Sex. Aelius and Drusus coincide, to the
for transcribers are not agreed as to the correct effect that the seller might bring an equitable ac-
reading of the Capitoline marbles, which are broken tion for damages (arbitrium) against the buyer,
into three fragments in the place where his name to recover the expenses of the keep of a slave,
is mentioned under the year of his son's consul- whom the buyer, without due cause, had refused to
ship. (Compare the respective Fasti of Marliani, accept. (Maiansius, ad XXX JCtos. ij. p. 35. )
the fabricator Goltzius, Sigonius, and Piranesi, Priscian (Ars Gram. lib. viii. p. 127, ed. Colon.
ad a. U. c. 606. )
1528) attributes to Livius the sentence, “ Impubes
3. C. Livius M. AEMILIANI F. M. N. DRUSUS, libripens esse non potest, neque antestari," It is
was consul in B. c. 147 with P. Cornelius Scipio probable that the jurist Livius Drusus is here
Africanus. Of his father nothing is known, but it meant, not only from the legal character of the
may be inferred with much probability that M. fragment, but because Priscian, whenever he quotes
Drusus Aemilianus belonged to the Aemilia gens, Livius Andronicus or the historian Livy, gives a
and was adopted by some M. Livius Drusus. It circumstantial reference to the particular work.
is possible, however, that M. Livius Drusus, the (Dirksen, Bruchstücke aus den Schrifien der Rö-
grandfather, had by different wives two mischen Juristen, p. 45. )
named Marcus, and that one of them was the son 4. M. Livius C. f. M. AEMILIANI N. DRUSUS,
of Aemilia, and was called, from his mother, Aemi- son of No. 3, was tribune of the plebs in the year
lianus. (Dict. of Ant. p. 641, s. v. Nomen. ) B. c. 122, when C. Gracchus was tribune for the
There was a Roman jurist, named C. Livius second time. The senate, alarmed at the
progress
Drusus, who has, by many writers, been identified of Gracchus in the favour of the people, employed
with the subject of the present article. Cicero his colleague Drusus, who was noble, well educated,
(Tusc. Qu. v. 38) mentions Drusus the jurist be wealthy, eloquent, and popular, to oppose his
fore mentioning Cn. Aufidius, and speaks of Drusus measures and undermine his influence. Against
as from tradition (accepimus), whereas he remem- some of the laws proposed by Gracchus, Drusus
bered having seen Aufidius. The jurist Drusus, interposed his veto without assigning any reason.
in his old age, when deprived of sight, continued (Appian, B. C. i. 23. ) He then adopted the un-
to give advice to the crowds who used to throng fair and crooked policy of proposing measures like
his house for the purpose of consulting him. Hence those which he had thi warted. " He steered by the
it has been rather hastily inferred, that Drusus the side of Gracchus, merely in order to take the wind
jurist was anterior to Aufidius, and was never out of his sails, Drusus gave to the senate the
seen by Cicero, and could not have been the son of credit of every popular law which he proposed,
the Drusus who was consul in B. c. 147. Others and gradually impressed the populace with the be-
are disposed to identify the jurist with the son, lief that the optimates were their best friends.
No. 5, and there is certainly no absurdity in sup- The success of this system earned for him the
posing the son of one who was consul in B. c. 147 designation patronus senatus. (Suet. Tib. 3. )
to have died at an advanced age before Cicero (born Drusus was able to do with applause that which
B. c. 106) happened to meet him, or was old Gracchus could not attempt without censure.
enough to remember him. Seeing, however, that Gracchus was blamed for proposing that the Latins
Cicero was an active and inquisitive student at should have full rights of citizenship. Drusus was
16, and considering the inferences as to age that lauded for proposing that no Latin should be dis-
may be collected from the years when No. 4 and honoured by rods even in time of actual military
No. 6, the brother and nephew of No. 5, held service. Gracchus, in his agrarian laws, reserved
offices, the argument founded upon Tusc. Qu. v. 38 a rent payable into the public treasury, and was
seems to be rather in favour of identifying the traduced.
Drusus relieved the grants of public
jurist with our present No. 3; but, in truth, there land from all payment, and was held up as a
are not sufficient data to decide the question. patriot. Gracchus proposed a law for sending out
(Rutilius, Vitae JCtorum 19; Guil. Grotius, de two colonies, and named among the founders some
Vit. JCtorum, 4. $ 8. )
of the most respectable citizens. He was abused
The jurist, whether father or son, composed as a popularity-hunter. Drusus introduced a law
works of great use to students of law (Val. Max. for establishing no fewer than twelve colonies, and
## p. 1078 (#1098) ##########################################
1078
DRUSUS.
DRUSUS.
bure.
for settling 3000 poor citizens in each. He was / triumphed. The Fasti Triumphales of this year
applauded, and was assisted in carrying the mea- are wanting, and Vaillant (Num. Ant. Fam. Rom.
These twelve colonies are supposed by ii. p. 52) has been misled into the quotation of a
Niebuhr (Hist. of Rome, iv. p. 349) to be the conjectural supplement as an authority. In a pas-
same with those mentioned by Cicero ( pro Cao sage in Pliny (H. N. xxxiii. 50), which has been
cina, 35). In all these measures, the conduct of relied upon as proving that Drusus triumphed, the
Drusus was seen to be exempt from sordid mo- words iriumphalem scnem do not refer to the
tives of gain. He took no part in the foundation Drusus mentioned immediately before.
of colonies, reserved no portions of land to himself, Plutarch (Quaest. Rom. vii. p. 119, ed. Reiske)
and left to others the management of business in mentions a Drusus who died in his office of censor,
which the disbursement of money was concerned. upon which his colleague, Acmilius Scaurus, re-
Gracchus, on the other hand, was anxious to have fused to abdicate, until the tribunes of the plebs
the handling of money, and got himself appointed ordered him to be taken to prison. It is liighly
one of the founders of an intended colony at Car- probable that our Drusus is intended, and that his
thage. The populace, ever suspicious in pecuniary censorship fell in the year B. C. 109, when the
matters, when they saw this, thought that all his remains of the Capitoline marbles shew that one of
fine professions were pretexts for private jobs. the censors died during his magistracy. (Fusti,
Besides, Drusus cleverly took advantage of his p. 237, Basil. 1559. )
absence to wound him through the side of Fulvius 5. C. Livius C. f. M. AEMILIANI X. Drusus,
Flaccus. Flaccus was hot-headed and indiscreet, was a son of No. 3. Pighius (Annales, iii. 20),
and Drusus contrived to throw the obloquy of his contrary to all probability, confounds him with
indiscretion and misconduct upon Gracchus. Thus Livius Drusus Claudianus, the grandfather of Ti-
was the policy of the senate and Drusus completely berius. (See No. 7. ] He approached his brother,
successful. Gracchus was outbidden and dis No. 4, in the influence of his character and
credited, and his power was for ever gone. (Plut. the weight of his eloquence. (Cic. Brut. 28. )
C. Gracchus, 8--1l; Cic. Brut. 28, de Fin. iv. Some have supposed bim to be the jurist C. Livius
24. )
Drusus, referred to by Cicero (Tusc. Qu. v. 38)
The policy and legislation of Drusus in his tri- and Valerius Maximus (viii. 7), but see No. 3.
bunate bear some resemblance to those of his son, Diodorus (Script. Vet. Nov. Coll. ii. p. 115, ed.
who was killed in his tribunate 31 years after-Mai) mentions the great power which the two
wards. Hence it is sometimes difficult to deter- Drusi acquired by the nobility of their family, their
mine whether passages in the classical authors good feeling, and their courteous demeanour. It
relate to the father or the son, and in some cases it seems to have been thought, that they could do
is probable that the father and the son have been anything they liked, for, after a certain law had
confounded by ancient writers. In a case of doubt been passed, some one wrote under it in jesh,
the presumption is that the son [No. 6) is intended, * This law binds all the people but the two
since his tragical death, followed close by the Marsic Drusi. ” It is far more likely that two brothers
war, has rendered the year of his tribunate a con- than that, as Mai supposes, a father and son (viz.
spicuous era in Roman history.
No. 4 and No. 6) should be thus referred to; and,
We read nothing more of Drusus, until he ob- from the context, we doubt not that No. 4 and the
tained the consulship in B. c. 112. He probably present No. 5, contemporaries of the Gracchi, are
passed through the regular gradations of office as designated.
aedile and praetor.
He may be the praetor 6. M. Livius M. F. C. N. DRUSUS, was a son
urbauns, whose decision, that an action of manda- of No. 4. His ambitious temper manifested itself
tum lay against an heir as such, is mentioned ad with precocious activity. From boyhood he never
Heren. ii. 13, and he may be the Drusus praetor, allowed himself a holiday, but, before he was of
an instance of whose legal astuteness is recorded in an age to assume the toga virilis, he frequented
a letter of Cicero to Atticus (vetus illud Drusi the forum, busied himself in trials, and sometimes
praetoris, &c. vii. 2); but we should rather be dis- exerted his influence so effectually with the judices
posed to refer these passages to some member of as to induce them to give sentence according to his
the family (perhaps No. 2 or No. 1), who attained wish. (Senec. de Brev. V'it. 6. ) His character and
the praetorship, but did not reach the higher office morals in his youth were pure and severe (Cic. de
of consul.
Off. i. 30), but a self-sufficient conceit was conspi-
Drusus obtained Macedonia as his province, and cuous in his actions. When quaestor in Asia, he
proceeded to make war upon the Scordisci. He would not wear the insignia of office : “ ne quid
was so successful in bis military operations, that ipso esset insignius. ” (Aurel. Vict. de Vir. N. 66. )
he not only repelled the incursions of this cruel When he was building a house upon the Palatine
and formidable enemy upon the Roman territory mount, the architect proposed a plan to prevent it
in Macedonia, but drove them out of part of their from being overlooked. "No," said he,“ rather
own country, and even forced them to retire from construct it so that all my fellow-citizens may see
Thrace to the further or Dacian side of the Danube. everything I do. " This house has a name in
(Florus, iii. 4. ) Upon his retum, he was wel history: it passed from Drusus into the family of
comed with high honours (Liv. Epit. lxiii. ), and Crassus, and can be traced successively into the hands
his victory was received with the warmer satisfac- of Cicero, Censorinus, and Rutilius Sisenna. (Vell.
tion from its following close upon the severe defeat Paterc. ii. 15. ) Velleius Paterculus slightly diviers
of C. Cato in the same quarter. (Dion Cass. Frag. from Plutarch' (Reip. Gereni. Praecepta, ix. p. 194,
Peiresc. 93, ed. Reimar, i. p. 40. ) It is very ed. Reiske) in relating this anecdote, and the re
likely that he obtained a triumph, for Suetonius ply to the architect has been erroneously attributed
(Tib: 3) mentions three triumphs of the Livia gens, to an imaginary Julius Drusus Publicola, from a
and only two (of Livius Salinator) are positively false reading in Plutarch of 'loúnios for Anoúños,
recorded. There is, however, no proof that Drusus, and a false translation of the epithet ó ônuaywrós
66
66
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DRUSUS.
1079
DRUSUS.
Drusus inherited a large fortune from his father, Drusus was early an advocate of the party of
the consul; but, in order to obtain political influ- the optimates. When Saturninus was killed in
ence, he was profuse and extravagant in his ex- B. c. 100, he was one of those who took up arms
penditure. The author of the treatise de Viris for the safety of the state (Cic. pro Rabir. Perd.
Illustribus, usually ascribed to Aurelius Victor, reo. 7), and supported the consul Marius, who was
says that, from want of money, he sometimes now, for once, upon the side of the senate. (Liv.
Blooped to unworthy practices. Magulsa, a prince Epit. xix. ) In the dispute between the senate
of Mauretania, had taken refuge in Rome from the and the equites for the possession of the judicia,
resentment of Bocchus, and Drusus was induced Caepio took the part of the equites, while Drusus
by a bribe to betray him to the king, who threw advocated the cause of the senate with such ear-
the wretched prince to an elephant. When Ad- nestness and impetuosity, that, like his father, he
herbal, son of the king of the Numidians (Micipsa), seems to have been termed patronus scnatus. (Cic.
fed to Rome, Drusus kept him a prisoner in his pro Mil. 7; Diod. xxxvi. fr. fin. ed. Bipont. x.
house, hoping that his father would pay a ransom p. 480. ) The equites had now, by a lex Sem-
for his release. These two statements occur in no pronia of C. Gracchus, enjoyed the judicia from B. C.
other author, and the second is scarcely reconci- | 122, with the exception of the short interval during
lable with the narrative of Sallust. The same au- which the lex Servilia removed the exclusion of the
thor states, that Drusus was aedile, and gave mag- senate (see p.
20. L. Scribonius Libo Drusus,
son of No. 8. ?
11. Nero Claudius Drusus
(senior), afterwards Drusus
Germanicus; married An-
tonia, minor.
i
12. Tiberius Nero Caesar
(emperor TIBERIUS); m.
1. Vipsania Agrippina.
13. Germanicus
Caesar; married
Agrippina.
14. Livia; 15. Ti. Claudius Drusus Caesar
m. 1. C. Caesar; (emperor CLAUDIUS); married
2. No. 16. 1. Urgulanilla.
16. Drusus Caesar (ju-
nior); died A. D. 23,
leaving a daugh. Julia
3
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DRUSUS.
1077
DRUSUS.
a
Julia
20. Agrippi-
|
17. Nero,
m. Julia,
daughter
of No. 16;
died A D. 30.
18. Dru-
sus; died
A. D. 33.
19. Caius Cae-
sar (emperor
CALIGULA);
m. 3. Cacsonia.
na, mother of
21. Drusilla ;
m. 1. L. Cassius,
2. M. Lepidus;
died A. D. 38.
22. Julia Livilla.
a 22. Three other
children; died
young.
23. Drusus;
died A. D.
20.
24. Claudia.
the emperor
Nexo.
Julia
25. Julia Drusila ; died A. D. 4).
OTHER DRUSI.
26. D. Drusus, Consul suffectus B. C. 137. ? (Dig. 1. tit. 13. §. 2. )
27. C. Drusus, historian. (Suet. Augustus, 94. )
sons
1. M. Livius Drusus, the father, natural or viii. 7), although his name is not mentioned by
adoptive, of No. 2. (Fast. Cupit. )
Pomponius in the fragment de Origine Juris. There
2. M. Livius M. f. Drusus AEMILIANUS, the is a passage in the Digest (19. tit. 1. s. 37. § 1),
father of No. 3. (Fast. Capit. ) Some modern where Celsus cites and approves an opinion, in
writers call him Mamilianus instead of Aemilianus, which Sex. Aelius and Drusus coincide, to the
for transcribers are not agreed as to the correct effect that the seller might bring an equitable ac-
reading of the Capitoline marbles, which are broken tion for damages (arbitrium) against the buyer,
into three fragments in the place where his name to recover the expenses of the keep of a slave,
is mentioned under the year of his son's consul- whom the buyer, without due cause, had refused to
ship. (Compare the respective Fasti of Marliani, accept. (Maiansius, ad XXX JCtos. ij. p. 35. )
the fabricator Goltzius, Sigonius, and Piranesi, Priscian (Ars Gram. lib. viii. p. 127, ed. Colon.
ad a. U. c. 606. )
1528) attributes to Livius the sentence, “ Impubes
3. C. Livius M. AEMILIANI F. M. N. DRUSUS, libripens esse non potest, neque antestari," It is
was consul in B. c. 147 with P. Cornelius Scipio probable that the jurist Livius Drusus is here
Africanus. Of his father nothing is known, but it meant, not only from the legal character of the
may be inferred with much probability that M. fragment, but because Priscian, whenever he quotes
Drusus Aemilianus belonged to the Aemilia gens, Livius Andronicus or the historian Livy, gives a
and was adopted by some M. Livius Drusus. It circumstantial reference to the particular work.
is possible, however, that M. Livius Drusus, the (Dirksen, Bruchstücke aus den Schrifien der Rö-
grandfather, had by different wives two mischen Juristen, p. 45. )
named Marcus, and that one of them was the son 4. M. Livius C. f. M. AEMILIANI N. DRUSUS,
of Aemilia, and was called, from his mother, Aemi- son of No. 3, was tribune of the plebs in the year
lianus. (Dict. of Ant. p. 641, s. v. Nomen. ) B. c. 122, when C. Gracchus was tribune for the
There was a Roman jurist, named C. Livius second time. The senate, alarmed at the
progress
Drusus, who has, by many writers, been identified of Gracchus in the favour of the people, employed
with the subject of the present article. Cicero his colleague Drusus, who was noble, well educated,
(Tusc. Qu. v. 38) mentions Drusus the jurist be wealthy, eloquent, and popular, to oppose his
fore mentioning Cn. Aufidius, and speaks of Drusus measures and undermine his influence. Against
as from tradition (accepimus), whereas he remem- some of the laws proposed by Gracchus, Drusus
bered having seen Aufidius. The jurist Drusus, interposed his veto without assigning any reason.
in his old age, when deprived of sight, continued (Appian, B. C. i. 23. ) He then adopted the un-
to give advice to the crowds who used to throng fair and crooked policy of proposing measures like
his house for the purpose of consulting him. Hence those which he had thi warted. " He steered by the
it has been rather hastily inferred, that Drusus the side of Gracchus, merely in order to take the wind
jurist was anterior to Aufidius, and was never out of his sails, Drusus gave to the senate the
seen by Cicero, and could not have been the son of credit of every popular law which he proposed,
the Drusus who was consul in B. c. 147. Others and gradually impressed the populace with the be-
are disposed to identify the jurist with the son, lief that the optimates were their best friends.
No. 5, and there is certainly no absurdity in sup- The success of this system earned for him the
posing the son of one who was consul in B. c. 147 designation patronus senatus. (Suet. Tib. 3. )
to have died at an advanced age before Cicero (born Drusus was able to do with applause that which
B. c. 106) happened to meet him, or was old Gracchus could not attempt without censure.
enough to remember him. Seeing, however, that Gracchus was blamed for proposing that the Latins
Cicero was an active and inquisitive student at should have full rights of citizenship. Drusus was
16, and considering the inferences as to age that lauded for proposing that no Latin should be dis-
may be collected from the years when No. 4 and honoured by rods even in time of actual military
No. 6, the brother and nephew of No. 5, held service. Gracchus, in his agrarian laws, reserved
offices, the argument founded upon Tusc. Qu. v. 38 a rent payable into the public treasury, and was
seems to be rather in favour of identifying the traduced.
Drusus relieved the grants of public
jurist with our present No. 3; but, in truth, there land from all payment, and was held up as a
are not sufficient data to decide the question. patriot. Gracchus proposed a law for sending out
(Rutilius, Vitae JCtorum 19; Guil. Grotius, de two colonies, and named among the founders some
Vit. JCtorum, 4. $ 8. )
of the most respectable citizens. He was abused
The jurist, whether father or son, composed as a popularity-hunter. Drusus introduced a law
works of great use to students of law (Val. Max. for establishing no fewer than twelve colonies, and
## p. 1078 (#1098) ##########################################
1078
DRUSUS.
DRUSUS.
bure.
for settling 3000 poor citizens in each. He was / triumphed. The Fasti Triumphales of this year
applauded, and was assisted in carrying the mea- are wanting, and Vaillant (Num. Ant. Fam. Rom.
These twelve colonies are supposed by ii. p. 52) has been misled into the quotation of a
Niebuhr (Hist. of Rome, iv. p. 349) to be the conjectural supplement as an authority. In a pas-
same with those mentioned by Cicero ( pro Cao sage in Pliny (H. N. xxxiii. 50), which has been
cina, 35). In all these measures, the conduct of relied upon as proving that Drusus triumphed, the
Drusus was seen to be exempt from sordid mo- words iriumphalem scnem do not refer to the
tives of gain. He took no part in the foundation Drusus mentioned immediately before.
of colonies, reserved no portions of land to himself, Plutarch (Quaest. Rom. vii. p. 119, ed. Reiske)
and left to others the management of business in mentions a Drusus who died in his office of censor,
which the disbursement of money was concerned. upon which his colleague, Acmilius Scaurus, re-
Gracchus, on the other hand, was anxious to have fused to abdicate, until the tribunes of the plebs
the handling of money, and got himself appointed ordered him to be taken to prison. It is liighly
one of the founders of an intended colony at Car- probable that our Drusus is intended, and that his
thage. The populace, ever suspicious in pecuniary censorship fell in the year B. C. 109, when the
matters, when they saw this, thought that all his remains of the Capitoline marbles shew that one of
fine professions were pretexts for private jobs. the censors died during his magistracy. (Fusti,
Besides, Drusus cleverly took advantage of his p. 237, Basil. 1559. )
absence to wound him through the side of Fulvius 5. C. Livius C. f. M. AEMILIANI X. Drusus,
Flaccus. Flaccus was hot-headed and indiscreet, was a son of No. 3. Pighius (Annales, iii. 20),
and Drusus contrived to throw the obloquy of his contrary to all probability, confounds him with
indiscretion and misconduct upon Gracchus. Thus Livius Drusus Claudianus, the grandfather of Ti-
was the policy of the senate and Drusus completely berius. (See No. 7. ] He approached his brother,
successful. Gracchus was outbidden and dis No. 4, in the influence of his character and
credited, and his power was for ever gone. (Plut. the weight of his eloquence. (Cic. Brut. 28. )
C. Gracchus, 8--1l; Cic. Brut. 28, de Fin. iv. Some have supposed bim to be the jurist C. Livius
24. )
Drusus, referred to by Cicero (Tusc. Qu. v. 38)
The policy and legislation of Drusus in his tri- and Valerius Maximus (viii. 7), but see No. 3.
bunate bear some resemblance to those of his son, Diodorus (Script. Vet. Nov. Coll. ii. p. 115, ed.
who was killed in his tribunate 31 years after-Mai) mentions the great power which the two
wards. Hence it is sometimes difficult to deter- Drusi acquired by the nobility of their family, their
mine whether passages in the classical authors good feeling, and their courteous demeanour. It
relate to the father or the son, and in some cases it seems to have been thought, that they could do
is probable that the father and the son have been anything they liked, for, after a certain law had
confounded by ancient writers. In a case of doubt been passed, some one wrote under it in jesh,
the presumption is that the son [No. 6) is intended, * This law binds all the people but the two
since his tragical death, followed close by the Marsic Drusi. ” It is far more likely that two brothers
war, has rendered the year of his tribunate a con- than that, as Mai supposes, a father and son (viz.
spicuous era in Roman history.
No. 4 and No. 6) should be thus referred to; and,
We read nothing more of Drusus, until he ob- from the context, we doubt not that No. 4 and the
tained the consulship in B. c. 112. He probably present No. 5, contemporaries of the Gracchi, are
passed through the regular gradations of office as designated.
aedile and praetor.
He may be the praetor 6. M. Livius M. F. C. N. DRUSUS, was a son
urbauns, whose decision, that an action of manda- of No. 4. His ambitious temper manifested itself
tum lay against an heir as such, is mentioned ad with precocious activity. From boyhood he never
Heren. ii. 13, and he may be the Drusus praetor, allowed himself a holiday, but, before he was of
an instance of whose legal astuteness is recorded in an age to assume the toga virilis, he frequented
a letter of Cicero to Atticus (vetus illud Drusi the forum, busied himself in trials, and sometimes
praetoris, &c. vii. 2); but we should rather be dis- exerted his influence so effectually with the judices
posed to refer these passages to some member of as to induce them to give sentence according to his
the family (perhaps No. 2 or No. 1), who attained wish. (Senec. de Brev. V'it. 6. ) His character and
the praetorship, but did not reach the higher office morals in his youth were pure and severe (Cic. de
of consul.
Off. i. 30), but a self-sufficient conceit was conspi-
Drusus obtained Macedonia as his province, and cuous in his actions. When quaestor in Asia, he
proceeded to make war upon the Scordisci. He would not wear the insignia of office : “ ne quid
was so successful in bis military operations, that ipso esset insignius. ” (Aurel. Vict. de Vir. N. 66. )
he not only repelled the incursions of this cruel When he was building a house upon the Palatine
and formidable enemy upon the Roman territory mount, the architect proposed a plan to prevent it
in Macedonia, but drove them out of part of their from being overlooked. "No," said he,“ rather
own country, and even forced them to retire from construct it so that all my fellow-citizens may see
Thrace to the further or Dacian side of the Danube. everything I do. " This house has a name in
(Florus, iii. 4. ) Upon his retum, he was wel history: it passed from Drusus into the family of
comed with high honours (Liv. Epit. lxiii. ), and Crassus, and can be traced successively into the hands
his victory was received with the warmer satisfac- of Cicero, Censorinus, and Rutilius Sisenna. (Vell.
tion from its following close upon the severe defeat Paterc. ii. 15. ) Velleius Paterculus slightly diviers
of C. Cato in the same quarter. (Dion Cass. Frag. from Plutarch' (Reip. Gereni. Praecepta, ix. p. 194,
Peiresc. 93, ed. Reimar, i. p. 40. ) It is very ed. Reiske) in relating this anecdote, and the re
likely that he obtained a triumph, for Suetonius ply to the architect has been erroneously attributed
(Tib: 3) mentions three triumphs of the Livia gens, to an imaginary Julius Drusus Publicola, from a
and only two (of Livius Salinator) are positively false reading in Plutarch of 'loúnios for Anoúños,
recorded. There is, however, no proof that Drusus, and a false translation of the epithet ó ônuaywrós
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DRUSUS.
Drusus inherited a large fortune from his father, Drusus was early an advocate of the party of
the consul; but, in order to obtain political influ- the optimates. When Saturninus was killed in
ence, he was profuse and extravagant in his ex- B. c. 100, he was one of those who took up arms
penditure. The author of the treatise de Viris for the safety of the state (Cic. pro Rabir. Perd.
Illustribus, usually ascribed to Aurelius Victor, reo. 7), and supported the consul Marius, who was
says that, from want of money, he sometimes now, for once, upon the side of the senate. (Liv.
Blooped to unworthy practices. Magulsa, a prince Epit. xix. ) In the dispute between the senate
of Mauretania, had taken refuge in Rome from the and the equites for the possession of the judicia,
resentment of Bocchus, and Drusus was induced Caepio took the part of the equites, while Drusus
by a bribe to betray him to the king, who threw advocated the cause of the senate with such ear-
the wretched prince to an elephant. When Ad- nestness and impetuosity, that, like his father, he
herbal, son of the king of the Numidians (Micipsa), seems to have been termed patronus scnatus. (Cic.
fed to Rome, Drusus kept him a prisoner in his pro Mil. 7; Diod. xxxvi. fr. fin. ed. Bipont. x.
house, hoping that his father would pay a ransom p. 480. ) The equites had now, by a lex Sem-
for his release. These two statements occur in no pronia of C. Gracchus, enjoyed the judicia from B. C.
other author, and the second is scarcely reconci- | 122, with the exception of the short interval during
lable with the narrative of Sallust. The same au- which the lex Servilia removed the exclusion of the
thor states, that Drusus was aedile, and gave mag- senate (see p.
