Drusus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
her Drusus · the former · your grandfather Drusus
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Cato's grandfather, cited as having healed the political damage caused by Gaius Gracchus.
Shall I compare your grandfather Drusus with Gaius Gracchus, nearly his contemporary?
Consolation to Marcia
Son of Livia, a Roman general who died on campaign in Germany, mourned by his mother with restraint.
Livia had lost her son Drusus, who would have been a great prince and was already a great general;
For you cannot be unaware that all these people do not know how to bear themselves—whether to say something about Drusus in your presence or nothing—lest either the forgetting of that most illustrious young man do him a wrong, or the mention of him do a wrong to you.
On the long journey, as she escorted the remains of her Drusus, harrowed by so many funeral pyres blazing throughout Italy—as though she lost him as many times over—yet as soon as she laid him in the tomb, she laid aside both him and her grief at once, and grieved no more than was honourable while Caesar lived, or just while Tiberius lived.