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Marcus Livius Drusus was the name of two magistrates in the Roman Republic.
Drusus was later consul in 112 and fought in the Balkans under Marius.
The younger Marcus Livius Drusus, son of the above, was tribune in 91.
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 NERO CLAUDIUS DRUSUS - LoveToKnow Article on NERO CLAUDIUS DRUSUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Drusus was said to have been deterred from crossing the Elbe by the sudden appearance of a woman of supernatural size, who predicted his approaching end.
Although the successes of Drusus, resulting in the subjection of the German tribes from the Rhine to the Elbe, were too rapid to be lasting, they brought home the fact of the existence of the Romans to many who had never heard their name.
Drusus was a man of violent passions, a drunkard and a debauchee, but not entirely devoid of better feelings, as is shown by his undoubtedly sincere grief at the death of Germanicus.
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 Drusus on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 112, Drusus was made consul by the senatorial party.
A member of the family by adoption was Livia Drusilla, mother of Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, 38 BC-9 BC, called Drusus Senior; he was the stepson of Augustus.
Drusus may have been poisoned by Sejanus or by his wife under Sejanus' influence.
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 Drusus - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gaius Livius Drusus was consul in 147 BC.
Marcus Livius Drusus Libo was consul in 15 BC.
Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus was a grandson of Pompey, and was charged with plotting against Tiberius, Germanicus, and Drusus II in 16.
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 MARCUS LIVIUS DRUSUS - LoveToKnow Article on MARCUS LIVIUS DRUSUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is possible that he is the Drusus mentioned by Plutarch as having died in 109, the year of his censorship.
His son, MARCUS Livius DRUSUS, became tribune of the people in 91 B.C. He was a thoroughgoing conservative, wealthy and generous, and a man of high integrity.
At that time an agitation was going on for the transfer of the judicial functions from the equites to the senate; Drusus proposed as a compromise a measure which restored to the senate the office of judices, while its numbers were doubled by the admission of 300 equites.
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Marcus Valerius Messala Rufus, the present head of the Rufus branch is the grandson of the eldest son of Marcus Valerius Rufus, while Publius Valerius Messala Niger is the grandson of the twice married Marcus Valerius Messala by the eldest son of his second wife, Publius Valerius Messala.
Marcus Livius Drusus is the grandson of Marcus Livius Drusus Censor, Consul in 112 BC.
Drusus inspired by the example of his father has served as Plebian Tribune, as Praetor of Transalpine Gaul and Bithynia in 59 BC and now is running for consul.
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 Drusus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Drusus was a (The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)) cognomen in (Click link for more info and facts about Ancient Rome) Ancient Rome, and may refer to:
Gaius Livius Drusus was (A diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country) consul in 147 BC.
Marcus Livius Drusus Libo was (A diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country) consul in 15 BC.
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 Marcus Aemilius Scaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (born circa 163 BC – died 88 BC) was a Roman politician, considered at his time like one of the best.
In 109 BC he was elected censor in partnership with Marcus Livius Drusus, who died in the next year, putting an end to the censorship.
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a Roman politician of the 1st century BC, son of the above.
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 NERO CLAUDIUS DRUSUS - LoveToKnow Article on NERO CLAUDIUS DRUSUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was of great importance to pacify the Gauls, in order to have his hands free to deal with the German tribes, one of which, the Sugambri, on the right bank of the Rhine, had seized the opportunity, during the absence of Augustus, to cross the river (12).
Winter being close at hand, the campaign was abandoned till the following spring, and Drusus returned to Rome with the honor of having been the first Roman general to reach the German Ocean.
The chief ancient authorities for the life of Drusus are Dio Cassius, the epitomes of Livy, Suetonius (Claudius), Tacitus (portions of the Annals), Florus (whose chief source is Livy), Velleius Paterculus, and the Consolatio ad Liviam.
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 Marcus Livius Drusus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marcus Livius Drusus was the name of two magistrates in the (The ancient Roman state from 509 BC until Augustus assumed power in 27 BC; was governed by an elected Senate but dissatisfaction with the Senate led to civil wars that culminated in a brief dictatorship by Julius Caesar) Roman Republic.
The elder Marcus Livius Drusus was set up as (The apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne) tribune by the (Assembly possessing high legislative powers) Senate in 122 BC to undermine (Click link for more info and facts about Gaius Gracchus) Gaius Gracchus' land reform bills.
This was vehemently opposed by both sides, and despite his friendship with Crassus, he gradually lost support from the Senate, the equites, the Roman population who did not want the Italians to become citizens, and wealthy Italian landlords who did not want to lose their land.
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 Drusus was a common name in Ancient Rome Ancient Rome...
"Gaius Livius Drusus" was consul consul in 147 BC 147 BC.
"Marcus Livius Drusus Libo" was consul consul in 15 BC 15 BC.
"Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus" was a grandson of Pompey Pompey, and was charged with plotting against Tiberius, Germanicus, and Drusus II in 16 16.
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 Encyclopedia: Drusus
Drusus Caesar was later accused of plotting against Tiberius and was imprisoned in 32, along with his mother.
Marcus Livius Drusus was the name of two Republican The Roman office of tribune of the people (tribunus plebis) was established in 494 BC, about 15 years after the foundation of the Roman Republic in 509.
Decimus or Nero Claudius Drusus, usually called simply Drusus or Drusus I (38 - 9 BC) was the younger son of Livia, wife of Augustus Caesar, and her first husband, Tiberius Claudius Nero.
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Her father was Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, an adoptive son of the tribune of 91, Marcus Livius Drusus.
She was born in 58 BC as the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (this last name means that he was a Claudius by birth, adopted into the Livii Drusii family) by his wife Alfidia.
Marcus Antony, Roman General [scrapbook] was born 82 or 81 BC.
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 Marcus Livius Drusus Biography / Biography of Marcus Livius Drusus Biography Biography
Drusus was a member of a great plebeian family, the son and grandson of consuls.
Drusus' mother belonged to the great patrician family of the Cornelii; his wife was Servilia, daughter of the Optimate leader Q. Servilius Caepio; and his sister Livia was married to Servilia's brother, also named Q. Servilius Caepio.
The results were tragic: Drusus was murdered in his home, his supporters were subjected to prosecution in the law courts, and the Italians rose in open rebellion in the Social War (91-87).
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 Marcus Porcius Cato, 95-46 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marcus Porcius Cato, 95-46 BC It is said of Cato that even from his infancy, in his speech, his countenance, and all his childish pastimes, he discovered an inflexible temper, unmoved by any passion, and firm in everything...to go through with what he undertook.
Marcus Porcius Cato "Uticensis" (also known as Cato the Younger) was many things, including the adamantine foe of the triumvirs Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus and the man whose undying enmity to Caesar in the Civil War led him to commit particularly violent suicide rather than give Caesar the pleasure of pardoning him in defeat.
He was reared by his uncle, Marcus Livius Drusus, along with several full and half-siblings (including half-sister, Servilia, later Caesar's longtime mistress and mother of Brutus).
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 Livia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After Marcus Antonius suicide at Actium in 31 BC, Augustus met no opposition to his increasing power, eventually becoming Roman Emperor always with Livia by his side.
Drusus was a trusted general and married Augustus' favourite nice, Antonia Minor.
One by one, all the sons of Julia Caesaris by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa died, ancient sources suggest Livia's aid on this, and Tiberius was nominated heir to the Empire.
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 MARCUS PORCIUS CATO
Marcus Porcius Cato (234 - 149 BC), Roman statesman, surnamed "The Censor," Sapiens, Priscus, or Major (the Elder), to distinguish him from Cato the Younger (his great-grandson), was born at Tusculum.
Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis (95 BC-46 BC), known as Cato the younger to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a Rome politician and statesman, follower of the Stoic philosophy.
Cato was born in 95 BC in Rome, as the son of Marcus Porcius Cato by his wife Livia Drusa.
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 Cato the Younger
Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger (Cato of Utica)
Reared by his uncle Marcus Livius Drusus, he showed an intense devotion to the principles of the early republic.
Cicero and Marcus Junius Brutus (Cato’s son-in-law) wrote eulogies of him while Caesar wrote his Anticato against him; the noble tragedy of his death has been the subject of many dramas.
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 Claudius (gens) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla (herself a Claudian Nero through her father Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus) was adpoted by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (see Julio-Claudian dynasty).
Marcus Claudius Marcellus, consul 222 BC, suffect 215 BC, 214 BC, 210 BC, 208 BC
Marcus Claudius Marcellus, consul 166 BC, 155 BC, 152 BC
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 O tempora! O mores! The Oratory of Cicero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The war was brought on by the assasination of the tribune Marcus Livius Drusus.
Drusus, elected tribune for the year 90, had an extensive reform program with two major objectives—strengthen the senate and give citizenship to the Italian allies.
Marcus Tullius Cicero was born on January 3, 106 BCE, in the town of Arpinum of the Volscian highlands.
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 Drusus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Drusus was a common name in Ancient Rome, and may refer to:
He committed suicide.\n*Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus was the original name of emperor Claudius.
\n*Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus was the full adopted name of Emperor Nero.
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She was also mother to Emperor Tiberius and Drusus, grandmother to Germanicus and Claudius, great-grandmother to Caligula and Agrippina the younger and great-great-grandmother to Nero.
After Marcus Antonius's suicide at Actium in 31 BC, Augustus met no opposition to his increasing power, eventually becoming Roman Emperor always with Livia by his side.
One by one, all the sons of Julia Caesaris by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa died, and Tiberius was nominated heir to the Empire.
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 Marcus Livius Drusus - netlexikon
Marcus Livius Drusus war der Name von zwei Politikern der römischen Republik.
Der ältere Marcus Livius Drusus wurde im Jahr 122 v.
Um dieser Aufgabe nachzukommen, schlug Drusus die Einrichtung von zwölf Kolonien zu je 3000 Siedlern aus den ärmeren Schichten vor sowie den Erlass der Abgaben für seit 133 v.
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 DRUSUS, MARCUS LIVIUS - Online Information article about DRUSUS, MARCUS LIVIUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Italy; Drusus provided twelve in Italy, to each of which 3000 citizens were to be sent.
Drusus himself declined all responsibility in connexion with carrying them out.
Drusus was stabbed one evening as he was returning See also:
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Antonia Minor married Nero Drusus Claudius Germanicus, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla, 0016 B.C. She was born 0036 B.C..
Marcus Atius Balbus married Julia, daughter of praetor Gaïus Julius Caesar and Aurelia, 0090 B.C. In circa.
She was the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, an adoptive son of the tribune Marcus Livius Drusus.
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 Drusus, Marcus Livius --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Drusus began by proposing colonial and agrarian reform bills.
Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote that the world was almost ruled by a nod of his head.
A fervent fl nationalist leader, Marcus Garvey inspired among fl people throughout the world a sense of pride in their African heritage.
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 History of Rome
The tribune Marcus Livius Drusus attempted to conciliate the poor citizens by agrarian and corn laws and to satisfy the Italian armies by promise of Roman citizenship.
Caesar and Cicero brought Latin prose to its peak of achievement, and Marcus Terentius Varro was the greatest scholar of the age.
Marcus Aurelius was succeeded by his profligate son Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus, who was considered one of the most sanguinary and licentious tyrants of history and was murdered in 192.
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 Livia
Her father though was born Appius Claudius Pulcher and was adopted as an infant by M. Livius Drusus who was tribune in 91 BCE.
The story is that when she was traveling to her country estate an eagle, the bird of Jupiter, dropped in her lap a pregnant hen holding a sprig of laurel in its mouth, all of which were potent omens.
In 9 BCE a second statue followed, on the surface, to console her on the recent death of her son Drusus and to call attention to her as a mother of important sons.
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