Career As A Jurist
Livius Drusus has also been identified as the jurist mentioned by Cicero in his work Tusculanae Disputationes. Drusus composed works of great use to students of law, and was cited by subsequent writers on the law. Celsus cites an opinion of Livius Drusus concerning a seller’s rights at law, stating that the seller might bring an equitable action for damages against the buyer, to recover the expenses of the upkeep of a slave, whom the buyer, without due cause, had refused to accept. Priscian attributes to Drusus the sentence ”Impubes libripens esse non potest, neque antestari” (“Young boys cannot stand on their feet before they can learn to balance.”)
In his old age, although he was blind, Livius Drusus continued to give advice to the crowds which used to gather before his house in order to consult him.
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus and Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Scipio Aemilianus Africanus 147 BC |
Succeeded by Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Mummius Achaicus |
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