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See also:MARCUS See also:AEMILIUS See also:SCAURUS (c. 163-88 B.C.) , See also:Roman statesman, was a member of a See also:great patrician See also:family which had sunk into obscurity . 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 . Having served in the See also:army in See also:Spain and See also:Sardinia, he became See also:curule See also:aedile, See also:praetor and (after an unsuccessful See also:attempt in 117) See also:consul in 115 . During his consulship he celebrated a See also:triumph for his victory over certain Alpine tribes . In 112 he was one of the commissioners sent to See also:Africa to arrange the dispute between Jugurtha and Adherbal . When a See also:special See also:committee was appointed to examine the charges of venality in their dealings with Jugurtha brought against the Roman representatives, See also:Scaurus, who was equally guilty with the See also:rest, was especially active in promoting the See also:establishment of the committee, and even managed to get himself put at the See also:head of it . He thus saved himself, but his intercession on behalf of theother offenders was of no avail . In ro9 Scaurus was See also: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 In 104 he superseded See also:Saturninus (q.v.) in the management of the See also:corn See also:supply at See also:Ostia . 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 . Though not a great orator, his speeches were weighty and impressive . His wife was See also:Caecilia Metella, who after his See also:death married the See also:dictator See also:Sulla . His daughter Aemilia was the wife of Manius Acilius See also:Glabrio, and subsequently of See also:Pompey, the triumvir . See See also:Sallust, Jugurtha; See also:Orelli's Onomasticon Tullianum; Asconius, In Scaurum; Aurelius See also:Victor, De viris illustribus, 72; A . H . J . Greenidge, Hist. of See also:Rome, i . 296; and M . G . See also:Bloch, Melanges d'histoire ancienne, i . (1909) . |
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