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See also: Roman statesman, was a member of a See also: great patrician See also: family which had sunk into obscurity
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His See also: father had been a See also: coal-dealer, and he himself had thought of becoming a See also: money-changer, but finally decided in favour of a See also: political career
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Having served in the army in See also: Spain and See also: Sardinia, he became See also: curule See also: aedile, praetor and (after an unsuccessful attempt in 117) See also: consul in 115
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During his consulship he celebrated a See also: triumph for his victory over certain Alpine tribes
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In 112 he was one of the commissioners sent to See also: Africa to arrange the dispute between Jugurtha and Adherbal
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When a See also: special committee was appointed to examine the charges of venality in their dealings with Jugurtha brought against the Roman representatives, Scaurus, who was equally guilty with the rest, was especially active in promoting the establishment of the committee, and even managed to get himself put at the See also: head of it
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He thus saved himself, but his intercession on behalf of theother offenders was of no avail
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In ro9 Scaurus was censor, and constructed the Via Aemilia and restored the Mulvian See also: bridge.' In 104 he superseded See also: Saturninus (q.v.) in the management of the corn supply at See also: Ostia
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During all his See also: life Scaurus was a See also: firm adherent of the moderate aristocratical party, which frequently involved him in quarrels with the representatives of the See also: people and the extremists on his own See also: side
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Though not a great orator, his speeches were weighty and impressive
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His wife was See also: Caecilia Metella, who after his See also: death married the dictator Sulla
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His daughter Aemilia was the wife of Manius Acilius See also: Glabrio, and subsequently of See also: Pompey, the triumvir
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See Sallust, Jugurtha; Orelli's Onomasticon Tullianum; Asconius, In Scaurum; Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus, 72; A . H . J . Greenidge, Hist. ofSee also: Rome, i
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296; and M
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See also: Bloch, Melanges d'histoire ancienne, i
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