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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.

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Ad Atticum 7.2 letters · 1 mention

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