Publius Scaevola
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman jurist involved in a legal debate about slave offspring as produce.
Shall the question whether the offspring of a slave-girl is to be reckoned among the produce be debated among the leading men of the state — Publius Scaevola and Manius Manilius, from whom Marcus Brutus dissents (a keen kind of inquiry, and not without use for the affairs of citizens, and I both read such writings, and the rest of that sort, gladly, and shall read them) — and shall these questions …
— who, when as praetor he had held the court for assassins, took bribes for his verdict so openly that in the next year Publius Scaevola, tribune of the plebs, proposed to the people whether they wished an inquiry into the matter.
' As though either it were granted that in all fools the vices are equally great, and that Lucius Tubulus was of the same weakness and inconstancy as that Publius Scaevola by whose bill he was condemned;
On the Nature of the Gods
A Roman chief pontiff invoked as an example of genuinely religious speech, contrasted with Epicurus.
So that you would say you were listening to Tiberius Coruncanius or Publius Scaevola, chief pontiffs, not to a man who has utterly done away with all religion and overthrown the temples and altars of the immortal gods, not with hands, like Xerxes, but with arguments.
But when it is a question of religion, I follow Tiberius Coruncanius, Publius Scipio, Publius Scaevola, the chief pontiffs, not Zeno or Cleanthes or Chrysippus;