Livius Drusus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On Benefits
Roman politician named alongside Gaius Gracchus as establishing the practice of receiving visitors in tiers.
2 Among us, first of all, Gaius Gracchus and presently Livius Drusus established the practice of separating their throng and receiving some in secret, others with many, others all together.
On the Shortness of Life
Roman tribune known for reviving the Gracchan reforms, described as never having had a holiday even as a boy, and who died from a wound, possibly self-inflicted.
To what lengths would such premature ambition not break out?
Livius Drusus, a fierce and vehement man, after he had set in motion new laws and the mischief inherited from the Gracchi, hemmed in by a vast throng gathered from all Italy, and unable to foresee the outcome of his measures—which he could neither carry through nor was now free to abandon once begun—is said to have cursed his life, unquiet from its very beginning, and to have declared that he alon …