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Quintus Scaevola

also: Q. Scaevolam, Q. Mucius, Quintus Mucius, Q. Scaevolae

Q. Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus, consul 95 BC with L. Crassus, the supreme jurist of the late Republic and author of the first systematic treatise on civil law in 18 books. Cicero's senior teacher in his youth; murdered in 82 BC by Marian agents at the altar of Vesta (Pro Rosc. Am. 33-34). Distinct from Scaevola the augur (Q. Mucius cos. 117). Standing model of integrity (Verr.; Pro Planc. 33).

Reading notes

Ad Atticum 5.17 §5 Scaevola, who alone presided over Asia for nine months
Q. Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex (cos. 95) governed Asia for only nine months around 94 BC, yet his scrupulous, incorrupt administration became the proverbial Roman model of good provincial government. Cicero hopes that a short, upright tenure will likewise make his own justice the more renowned.
Ad Atticum 6.1 §4 as Scaevola did in place of Glabrio
A legal exemplum: in a guardianship (tutela) Q. Mucius Scaevola took over from M'. Glabrio and renounced claiming the interest and principal, the model Cicero invokes for declining to enforce Brutus's harsh loan.
Ad Atticum 6.1 §14 the Asiatic edict of Q. Mucius P. f.
Q. Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex, as governor of Asia (c. 97 BC), issued a famously fair provincial edict that became the model for upright administration; Cicero modelled his own Cilician edict closely upon it.
Ad Atticum 8.3 §6 what Q. Mucius did
Q. Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex, the great jurist, likewise stayed at Rome through the Cinnan terror; he foresaw his own fate yet preferred it to marching armed against his country, and was murdered in 82 BC. Cicero invokes him as the authority for principled non-flight.
Ad Atticum 9.12 §1 that end of Mucius
Q. Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex, the great jurist, was murdered in the temple of Vesta during the Marian terror of 82 BC; Cicero, in despair, says he now longs for 'that end of Mucius' — a noble death at home rather than flight.
Ad Familiares 1.9 §26 that famous Quintus Scaevola
Q. Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex (cos. 95), whose just but strict governorship of Asia made him bitter enemies among the publicani. Cicero cites him as the precedent for the hostility an upright governor incurs from the tax-farming companies.
Ad Familiares 7.10 §2 Mucius and Manilius were of the same view
Two jurists invoked as if delivering a mock legal opinion (the form a responsum took): they 'agree' that Trebatius needs a good stove against the Gallic winter. A standing joke that Trebatius's legal circle is consulted on his comfort.
On the Nature of the Gods §3.80 before the image of Vesta
Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus and great jurist, was murdered in 82 BC at the temple of Vesta during the Marian terror. Cotta cites his death, with that of other good men, to ask why providence let the best perish.
On Duties §2.57 the most temperate of all men, Quintus Mucius
Quintus Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex (consul 95 BC), the great jurist, colleague of Lucius Crassus in a magnificent aedileship and famed as the most temperate of men.
On Duties §3.62 Quintus Scaevola, son of Publius
Quintus Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex (consul 95 BC), the great jurist. Cicero cites his insistence on paying a fair price for land as the act of a good man, which the Stoic 'wise men' would not allow.
On Duties §3.70 Quintus Scaevola, the pontifex maximus
The same Scaevola the Pontifex, Rome's foremost jurist, who held that the formula 'in good faith' carried the widest force in law, governing guardianships, partnerships, sales, and the other dealings of social life.
Laelius, On Friendship §1 Scaevola the Pontiff
Quintus Mucius Scaevola the Pontifex (cos. 95 BC, pontifex maximus), the great jurist to whom Cicero attached himself after the death of Scaevola the Augur. He is a different man from the Augur who narrates the dialogue.