Quintus Mucius Scaevola
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Q. Mucius · Quintus Scaevola · Q. Mucius Scaevola · Q. Mucius Scævola · the Pontifex · the chief pontiff · the high pontiff
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman jurist credited with the provincial edict of Asia containing an early form of the exceptio doli.
Cicero gives the form of exceptio doli contained in the edictum Asiaticum of Q.
Mucius;
Mucius Scaevola (Consul b.
On the Commonwealth
Son-in-law of Laelius, learned young man of quaestorian age.
Spurius Mummius, whom he held especially dear, and Gaius Fannius and Quintus Scaevola, sons-in-law of Laelius, learned young men, now of quaestorian age.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman jurist and chief pontiff, murdered at the temple of Vesta during civil strife.
why was that pattern of temperance and prudence, Quintus Scaevola, the chief pontiff, butchered before the image of Vesta;
Ancient Law
Roman jurist and Pontifex credited with compiling an early manual of Roman Civil Law.
Mucius Scævola, the Pontifex, is said to have published a manual of the entire Civil Law, and there are traces in the writings of Cicero of growing disrelish for the old methods, as compared with the more active instruments of legal innovation.