Publius Mucius Scaevola
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Mucius · Publius Mucius · Publius Scaevola
in the texts
Lucullus
Roman jurist said to have authored laws for Tiberius Gracchus, cited in Lucullus's political analogy.
and they say that those two most wise and illustrious brothers, Publius Crassus and Publius Scaevola, were the authors of laws for Tiberius Gracchus — the one openly, as we see, the other more obscurely, as men suspect.
On the Commonwealth
Jurist and statesman, part of the dialogue circle, also named as a political opponent's ally.
Then Mucius:
now let us hear Philus, whom I see being consulted on greater matters than I or Publius Mucius.
and the detractors and enviers of Scipio, with a beginning made by Publius Crassus and Appius Claudius, hold no less, now that these men are dead, the other part of the senate that dissents from you, with Metellus and Publius Mucius as their authors;
Institutes of Roman Law
One of the founders of scientific Roman jurisprudence.
The founders of this scientific jurisprudence, whose labours were to be perpetuated by the lawyers of the Principate, were Marcus Junius Brutus, Marcus Manilius and Publius Mucius Scaevola, all of whom Edition: