A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

733 SCAURUS. SCAURUS.
the conquest of Privernum by C. Plautius Hypsaeus, All the ancient authorities respecting the Aemilil
in B. c. 341. On the obverse is a camel, with Scauri are given by Drumann. (Geschiclte Ronts,
Aretas kneeling by the side of the animal, and vol. i. pp. 25-33.)
holding an olive branch in his hand. The subject SCAURUS, ATTI'LIUS, a friend of the
refers to the conquest of Aretas by Scaurus men- younger Pliny (Plin. Ep. vi. 25), to whom one of
tioned above. The legend is Ma. SCAVR. AED. CVR. his letters is addressed. (Ep. v. 13.)
EX. S. C., and below REX ARETAS. (Eckhel, vol. SCAURUS, AURE'LIUS. 1. C. AURELIUS
v. pp. 131, 275.) SCAURUS, praetor B. c. 186, obtained Sardinia as
his province. (Liv. xxxix. 6, 8.)
V~2 ~ " A ~ 2. M. AURELIUS SCAURUS, was consul suffectus
in B. C. 108. Three years afterwards, B.c. 105,
he was consular legate in Gaul, where he was defeated by the Cimbri, and taken prisoner. When
/kj / t he was brought before the leaders of the Cimbri,'oi'-es ~ ~1'~~) he warned them not to cross the Alps, as they
would find it impossible to subdue the Romans,
COIN OF M. AEMILIUS SCAURUS. and was thereupon killed on the spot by Boiorix,
one of the chiefs. He is erroneously called by
4. AEMILIUS SCAURUS, the younger son of Velleius Paterculus consul, instead of consularis
No. 2, fought under the proconsul, Q. Catulus, (Liv. Epit. 67; Oros. v. 16; Vell. Pat. ii. 12;
against the Cimbri at the Athesis, and having fled Tac. Germ. 37.) This M. Aurelius Scaurus is
from the field, was indignantly commanded by his erroneously called M. Aemilius Scaurus by many
father not to come into his presence; whereupon modern writers.
the youth put an end to his life. (Val. Max. v. 8. 3. M. AURELIUS SCAURUS, the quaestor men~ 4; Frontin. Strat. iv. 1. ~ 3.) tioned by Cicero (Verr. i. 33), was probably a son
5. M. AEMILIUS SCAURUS, the son of No. 3, of the preceding.
and Mucia, the former wife of Pompey the trium- 4. M. AURELIUS SCAURUS, whose name occurs
vir, and consequently the half-brother of Sex. on coins, of which a specimen is annexed. On
Ponmpey. He accompanied the latter into Asia, the obverse is the head of Pallas, and on the reafter the defeat of his fleet in Sicily, but betrayed verse Mars driving a chariot. From the legend
him into the hands of the generals of M. Antonius, L. LIC. and CN. DOM. on the reverse, it is supposed
in B. c. 35. After the battle of Actium, he fell that Scaurus was one of the triumvirs of the mint
into the power of Octavian, and escaped death, to at the time that L. Licinius and Cn. Domitius held
which lie had been sentenced, only through the in- one of the higher magistracies. There are several
tercession of his mother, Mucia. (Appian, B. C. other coins of the same kind. [See Vol. I. p. 863,
v. 142; Dion Cass. li. 2, lvi. 38.) b, and more especially Vol. II. p. 785, a.]
6. MAMERCUS AEMILIUS SCAURUS, the son
of No. 5, was a distinguished orator and poet, but
of a dissolute character. He was a member of the
senate at the time of the accession of Tiberius,
A. D. 14, when he offended this suspicious emperor - ~.-~
by some remarks which he made in the senate. tCA
He is mentioned as one of the accusers of Domitius
Corbulo in A. D. 21, and likewise as one of the
accusers of Silanus, in A. D. 22. He was himself
accused of majestas in A. D. 32, but Tiberius COIN OF M. AURELIUS SCAURUS.
stopped the proceedings against him. He was,
however, again accused of the same crime in A. D. SCAURUS, MA'XIMUS, a centurion in the
34, by Servilius and Cornelius Tuscus, who charged praetorian troops, was one of the parties privy to
him with magic, and with having had adultery Piso's conspiracy against the emperor Nero. (Tac.
with Livia; but his real ground of offence was his Ann. xv. 50.)
tragedy of Atreus, in which his enemy Macro had SCAURUS, Q. TERE'NTIUS, a celebrated
interpolated some verses reflecting upon the em grammarian who flourished under the emperor
peror. He put an end to his own life at the Hadrian (divi Iladriani temporibus granzmaticus
suggestion of his wife Sextia, who killed herself at vel nobilissilmus), and whose son was one of the
the same time (Tac. Ann. i. 13, iii. 31, 36, vi. 9, preceptors of the emperor Verus (Gell. xi. 15.
29; Dion Cass. lviii. 24; Senec. Suas. 2, de Benef. ~ 3; comp. Auson. Epist. xviii. 27; Capitolin.
iv. 31; Meyer, Orat. Rom. Fragnz. pp. 558, 559, Verus, 2). He was the author of an Ars Gram2d ed.). Both Tacitus (Ann. iii. 66) and Seneca matica and of commentaries upon Plautus, Virgil,
(de Benef. iv. 31) call him a consular, but the and the Ars Poe'tica of Horace, which are known
year of his consulship is not known. Besides to us from a few scattered notices only, for the
Sextia, who was his wife at the time of his death, tract entitled Q. Terentii Scaueri de Orthograpohia
he had also been married to Lepida, by whom he ad Theseurn included in the " Grammaticae Lahad a daughter, and who was condemned in A. D. tinae Auctores Antiqui" of Putschius (4to. Han20 (Tac. Ann. iii. 23). In the following year he nov. 1605, pp. 2250-2264), but originally pubis called the paternal uncle (patruus) and step- lished at Basle (8vo. 1527), is not believed to be
father (evitricus) of Sulla (Tac. Ann. iii. 31), and a genuine production of this Scaurus at least.
therefore it would appear that, after the death of (Charisius, pp. 107, 110, 182, 187, 188; DioLepida, he had married his brother's widow. Se- medes, pp. 275, 305, 415, 439, 444, 450; Prisneca says (Suas. 2) that this Scaurus was the last cian. p. 910; Rtfinus, de l1Vetris Comnicis, pp. 2711,
of his family. 2713, all in the ed. of Putschius; Serv. ad Virg.