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1076 DRUSUS. DRUSUS.
men Drusus for himself and his descendants, by pian, Gall. iv. fr. 11, ed. Schweigh.), that they
having slain in close combat one Drausus, a chief- seem to have been annihilated as an independent
tain of the enemy. This Livius Drusus, he goes people, and we never afterwards read of them as
on to say, was propraetor in Gaul, and, according being engaged in war against Rome. On this
to one tradition, on his return to Rome, brought supposition, however, according to the ordinary
from his province the gold which had been paid to duration of human life, M. Livius Drusus, the
the Senones at the time when the Capitol was be- patronus senatus of B. c. 122, must have been, not
sieged. This account seems to be as little deserving the abnepos, but the adnepos, or grandson's grandof credit as the story that Camillus prevented the son's son, of the first Drusus, and hence Pighius
gold from being paid, or obliged it to be restored (1. c.) proposes to read in Suetonius adnepos in
in the first instance, place of abnepos.
Of the time when the first Livius Drusus flou- Suetonius (Tib. 2) mentions a Claudius Drusus,
rished, nothing more precise is recorded than that who erected in his own honour a statue with a
M. Livius Drusus, who was tribune of the plebs diadem at Appii Forum, and endeavoured to get
with C. Gracchus in B.C. 122, was his abnepos. This all Italy within his power by overrunning it with
word, which literally means grandson's grandson, his clientelae. If we may judge from the position
may possibly mean indefinitely a more distant de- which this Claudius Drusus occupies in the text of
scendant, as atavus in Horace (Carm. i. 1) is used Suetonius, he was not later than P. Claudius
indefinitely for an ancestor. Pulcher, who was consul in B. c. 249. It is not
Pighius (Annales, i. p. 416) conjectures, that easy to imagine any rational origin of the cognothe first Livius Drusus was a son of M. Livius men Drusus in the case of this early Claudius,
Denter, who was consul in B. c. 302, and that which would be consistent with the account of the
Livius Denter, the son, acquired the agnomen of origin of the cognomen given by Suetonius in the
Drusus in the campaign against the Senones under case of the first Livius Drusus. The asserted
Cornelius Dolabella, in B. c. 283. He thinks that origin from the chieftain Drausus may be, as Bayle
the descendants of this Livius Denter Drusus (Dictionnaire, s. v. Drusus) surmises, one of those
assumed Drusus as a family cognomen in place of fables by which genealogists strive to increase the
Denter. There is much probability in this conjec- importance of families. The connexion of the
ture, if the origin of the name given by Suetonius family of Drusus with the first emperors probably
be correct; for the Senones were so completely reflected a retrospective lustre upon its republican
subdued by Dolabella and Domitius Calvinus (Ap- greatness. (Virg. Aen. yi. 825.)
STEMMA DRUSORUM.
1. M. Livius Drusus.
2. M. Livius Drusus Aemilianus (qu. Mamilianus).
3. C. Livius Drusus, Cos. B. c. 147.
4. M. Livius Drusus, Cos. B. c. 12; 5. C. Livius Drusus.
married Cornelia.
6. M. Livius Drusus, Livia; married 1.? Q. Servilius Caepio. = married 2.? M. Porcius Cato.
Trib. P1.; killed B. c.
91; married Servilia,
sister of Q. Servilius Q. Servilius Servilia; married 1. M. Servilia; M. Cato Porcia;
Caepio. Caepio, Junius Brutus [m. 2. D. married Utic. married
ITrib. Mil. Junius Silanus]. Lucullus. L.Domit.
I B. c. 72. Aheno7. Livius Drusus Claudianus. M. Junius Brutus, tyrannic. barbus.
adopted by No. 6.?
8. M. Livius Drusus Libo, Consul B. c. 15; 9. Livia Drusilla, afterwards named Julia Augusta;
adopted by No. 7?; married Pompeia? m. 1. Tiberius Claudius Nero [2. Augustus Caesar].
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10. L. Scribonius Libo Drusus, 11. Nero Claudius Drusus 12. Tiberius Nero Caesar
son of No. 8.? (senior), afterwards Drusus (emperor TIBERIUS); m.
Germanicus; married An- 1. Vipsania Agrippina.
tonia, minor.
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13. Germanicus 14. Livia; 15. Ti. Claudius Drusus Caesar 16. Drusus Caesar (juCaesar; married m. 1. C.Caesar; (emperor CLAUDIUS); married nior); died A. D. 23,
Agrippina. 2. No. 16. 1. Urgulanilla. leaving a daugh. Julia,
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