Quintus Mucius Scaevola (Pontifex)

Quintus Mucius Scaevola (c. 140 BC, † 82 BC in Rome ) was a Roman politician and lawyer.

Life

The son of the consul of 133 BC, Publius Mucius Scaevola, was after the tribune 106 BC in the year 95 BC, consul himself, a year later proconsul of the province of Asia, which he managed so exemplary that he the hostility of the chivalrous tax farmers drew upon, which eventually led to his murder. In 89 BC he was pontifex maximus.

As consul Scaevola brought his colleague Lucius Licinius Crassus, a Lex Licinia Mucia on the expulsion of non-citizens. He wrote the first systematic manual of Roman law. Of the 18 books on civil jurisdiction only excerpts have been preserved in the Late Antique Digest. Quintus Mucius Scaevola was next to his eponymous elderly relative to the teachers of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero mentions in his work De oratore the significant litigation causa Curiana, Q. Mucius Scaevola in the argued against his former colleague Licinius Crassus L..