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Quintus Mucius Scaevola (cos. 95)

Consul in 95; credited with founding the study of law as a systematic discipline; assassinated in the temple of the Vestal Virgins

🏛️ Career

  1. 98 BCE
    (aged 42)
    Praetor

    MT: some uncertainty about timing of this praetorship but given he was consul in 95 BCE Broughton believes this is the latest possible date.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • This is the latest possible date in view of the date of his consulship. Balsdon has shown (CR 51 [1937] 8-10) that the phrase in Asconius, provinciam ..... deposuerat (15 C), refers to his consulship, when his colleague Crassus was demanding a triumph, and means not that he left his province, which would demand the verb decedere, but that he refused at that time to go to a province at all. Magie in his important recent work, Roman Rule in Asia Minor (2.1064, note 47) returns to the view that Scaevola's governorship of Asia followed his consulship, since otherwise the interval between the acts of Scaevola's Legate, Rutilius Rufus, and his prosecution in 92 would be inexplicably long. The interval however was greater in the case of C. Norbanus (see 103, Tribunes of the Plebs), and of C. Antonius (see 84, Prefects, and 76 Praetors, on M. Lucullus). The balance of political factors in Rome may well have had much to do with the date of the trial of Rutilius. It is unlikely that Scaevola assumed command of Asia during the year of his praetorship, for he remained in his province only nine months (Cic. Att. 5.17.5), and his title while there was Proconsul (Liv. Per. 70; cf. OGIS 437 and 439; see 97, Promagistrates). (MRR2)
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Licinius Crassus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 98 BCE (Praetor) , 95 BCE (Consul)

    C. Claudius Pulcher (cos. 92) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 95 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Aurelius Cotta (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 95 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Julius Caesar (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 95 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Perperna (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 95 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 95 BCE
    (aged 45)
    Consul · Co-consul: L. Licinius Crassus

    MT: They carried a law to ban non-citizens from acting as Roman citizens and to re-register themselves into their allied communities (Cicero, De Oficiis 3.47). Crassus defended Q. Caepio from some unknown charge (Cicero Brut. 102), and repressed raiders in Cisalpine Gaul, but his demand for a triumph was vetoed by his colleague (Cic. Inv. 2.111, Consul; Pis. 62, and Ascon. 15 C; Val. Max. 3.7.6, Proconsul; see 94, Promagistrates). Scaevola resigned his province.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Verr. 2.2.122; Brut. 161, 229, 328; De Or. 1.170; 3.10; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f., and Fast. Cap., ibid., 55, 129, 478f.; Val. Max. 8.15.6; Obseq. 50; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Crassus, Cic. De Or. 1. 112; 3.229; Val. Max. 4.5.4. They carried a law to send Italians resident at Rome back to their own towns, and set up a quaestio to enforce it (Cic. Corn. fr. 10, and Ascon. 67-68C; De Or. 2.257; Sest. 30; Balb. 48 and 54; Off. 3.47; Brut. 63; Sall. Hist. 1.20M; Schol. Bob. 129 Stangl). Crassus defended Q. Caepio from some unknown charge (Cic. Brut. 102), and repressed raiders in Cisalpine Gaul, but his demand for a triumph was vetoed by his colleague (Cic. Inv. 2.111, Consul; Pis. 62, and Ascon. 15 C; Val. Max. 3.7.6, Proconsul; see 94, Promagistrates). Scaevola resigned his province (Ascon. 15C; cf. Balsdon, CR 51 [1937] 8-10).
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Licinius Crassus (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 98 BCE (Praetor) , 95 BCE (Consul)

    C. Claudius Pulcher (cos. 92) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 95 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Aurelius Cotta (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 95 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Julius Caesar (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 95 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Perperna (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 95 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.