Quintus Mucius Scaevola (Pontifex)

Quintus Mucius Scaevola (* around 140 BC; † 82 BC in Rome ) was a Roman politician and lawyer .

The son of the consul from 133 BC. BC, Publius Mucius Scaevola , was after the tribunate in 106 BC. In the year 95 BC BC himself consul, the following year proconsul of the province of Asia , which he administered so exemplary that he incurred the hostility of the knightly tax farmers, which ultimately led to his murder. In 89 BC He became pontifex maximus .

As consul, Scaevola and his colleague Lucius Licinius Crassus brought in the Lex Licinia Mucia on the expulsion of non-citizens. He was the first Roman to write a systematic manual of law. From the 18 books on civil jurisdiction only excerpts have survived in the late antique digests . Quintus Mucius Scaevola was one of the teachers of Cicero , along with his elder relative of the same name .

In 93 BC BC Scaevola lost an inheritance lawsuit (causa Curiana) , in which the victorious lawyer of the other side was his former colleague L. Licinius Crassus. Crassus argued for a free interpretation of the will, while Scaevola took the position of formal rigor.

literature

• Detlef Liebs : Q. Mucius Scaevola (pontiff). In: Werner Suerbaum (Ed.): The archaic literature. From the beginnings to Sulla's death (= Handbook of Ancient Latin Literature , Volume 1). CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48134-5 , pp. 569-571