Drūsus

, a son of Tiberius and Vipsania, who made himself famous by his intrepidity and courage in the provinces of Illyricum and Pannonia. He was raised to the greatest honours of the state by his father, but a blow which he gave to Sejanus, an audacious libertine, proved his ruin. Sejanus corrupted Livia the wife of Drusus, and in conjunction with her, he caused him to be poisoned by a eunuch, A.D. 23.――A son of Germanic us and A grip pin a, who enjoyed offices of the greatest trust under Tiberius. His enemy Sejanus, however, effected his ruin by his insinuations; Drusus was confined by Tiberius, and deprived of all aliment. He was found dead nine days after his confinement, A.D. 33.――A son of the emperor Claudius, who died by swallowing a pear thrown in the air.――An ambitious Roman, grandfather to Cato. He was killed for his seditious conduct. Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 13 .――Livius, father of Julia August a, was intimate with Brutus, and killed himself with him after the battle of Philippi. Paterculus , bk. 2 , ch. 71 .――Marcus Livius, a celebrated Roman, who renewed the proposals of the Agrarian laws, which had proved fatal to the Gracchi. He was murdered as he entered his house, though he was attended with a number of clients and Latins, to whom he had proposed the privilege of Roman citizens, B.C. 190. Cicero , Rhetoric a ad Herennium , bk. 4 , ♦ ch. 22 .――Nero Claudius, a son of Tiberius Nero and Livia, adopted by August us. He was brother to Tiberius, who was afterwards made emperor. He greatly signalized himself in his wars in Germany and Gaul against the Rhœti and Vindelici, and was honoured with a triumph. He died of a fall from his horse in the 30th year of his age, B.C. 9. He left three children, Germanic us, Livia, and Claudius, by his wife Antonia. Dionysius of Halicarna us. ――Marcus Livius Sal in at or, a consul who conquered Asdrubal with his colleague Claudius Nero. Horace , bk. 4 , ode 4.— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 824 .――Caius, an historian, who being one day mi ed from his cradle, was found the next on the highest part of the house, with his face turned towards the sun.――Marcus, a pretor, . Cicero , Rhetoric a ad Herennium , bk. 2 , ch. 13 .――The plebeian family of the Drusi produced eight consuls, two censors, and one dictator. The surname of Drusus was given to the family of the Livii, as some suppose, because one of them killed a Gaulish leader of that name. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 824 , mentions the Drusi among the illustrious Romans, and that perhaps more particularly because the wife of August us was of that family. ♦ ‘12’ replaced with ‘22’