Marcus livius drusus biography of alberta

The proposal of Gracchus q. Drusus threatened to veto the proposal. Encouraged by this, the senatorial party put up Drusus to outbid Gracchus.

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Gracchus had proposed to found colonies outside Italy; Drusus provided twelve in Italy, to each of which citizens were to be sent. Gracchus had proposed to distribute allotments to the poorer citizens subject to a state rent-charge; Drusus promised them free of all charge, and further that they should be inalienable. In addition to the franchise, immunity from corporal punishment even in the field was promised the Latins.

The absence of Gracchus, and the inefficiency of his representative at Rome, led to the acceptance of these proposals, which were never intended to be carried. Drusus himself declined all responsibility in connexion with carrying them out. He was rewarded for his services by the consulship , and the title of patronus senatus. He received Macedonia for his province, where he distinguished himself in a campaign against the Scordisci, whom he drove across the Danube, being the first Roman general who reached that river.

It is possible that he is the Drusus mentioned by Plutarch as having died in , the year of his censorship. Appian, Bell. Greenidge, Hist. His son, Marcus Livius Drusus, became tribune of the people in 91 B. He was a thoroughgoing conservative, wealthy and generous, and a man of high integrity. With some of the more intelligent members of his party such as Marcus Scaurus and L.

Licinius Crassus the orator he recognized the need of reform.