Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (consul 115 BC)

Marcus Aemilius Scaurus the Elder (c. 163 BC, † 88 BC) was a politician of the Roman Republic.

Life

Scaurus came from an impoverished noble family, his father tried the standard of living of the family to secure a coal dealer. He himself, however, any economic activity abstained (which was forbidden for Roman senators anyway ) and began a political career. At the beginning of Scaurus ' cursus honorum the task of Militärtribuns in the Hispanic provinces stood. Subsequently, he was curule aedile, then praetor. In the year 115 BC Scaurus was chosen (along with Marcus Caecilius Metellus ) consul and in the same year by the incumbent censors ( Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus diadematus ) appointed princeps senatus. As head of the Senate, he was often deployed to resolve disputes between foreign kings.

In the year 109 BC Scaurus was elected censor; the death of his colleague Marcus Livius Drusus the following year put an end to the Office. As censor Scaurus ordered the construction of the Via Aemilia Scaura and the restoration of a number of bridges, including the Milvian Bridge, on. In the year 104 BC, he was responsible for the supply of grain in Rome, a task that was so important that it was transmitted only completely trustworthy people because of it depended on the mood of the troubled Roman population. Scaurus was inspired by some modern scholars as head of an aristocratic- conservative Senate faction throughout his political work viewed ( Solid fractions, there were in the Roman Senate, however, does not ).

His second wife was Cecilia Metella, later, the fourth wife of Sulla. From this marriage he had two children, Aemilia Scaura, the second wife of Pompey, and Marcus Aemilius Scaurus the young.