person
Marcus Livius Drusus (the jurist-praetor)
Drusus the praetor
also: Drusus, Drusi
A praetor remembered as a jurist for a ruling on manumission oaths, cited by Cicero as legal precedent that a slave wrongly claiming freedom was not thereby freed. Father of M. Livius Drusus the reforming tribune of 91 BC; distinct from that son and from the other Drusi.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.2 §8 that old formula of Drusus the praetor
M. Livius Drusus, a noted jurist-praetor, was famous for a ruling about manumission oaths; Cicero invokes it to argue that his runaway slave Chrysippus was never legally freed, since no one was present to claim his freedom on his behalf.