er his death. As
the friend of Arminius, he was charged by the orthodox and dominant
party with unfairness in the execution of the task, and the last sixteen
years of his life were therefore somewhat embittered by controversy. He
carried on an extensive correspondence with the learned in different
countries; for, besides letters in Hebrew, Greek and other languages,
there were found amongst his papers upwards of 2000 written in Latin. He
had a son, John, who died in England at the age of twenty-one, and was
accounted a prodigy of learning. He had mastered Hebrew at the age of
nine, and Scaliger said that he was a better Hebrew scholar than his
father. He wrote a large number of letters in Hebrew, besides notes on
the Proverbs of Solomon and other works.

Paquot states the number of the printed works and treatises of the
elder Drusius at forty-eight, and of the unprinted at upwards of
twenty. Of the former more than two-thirds were inserted in the
collection entitled _Critici sacri, sive annolata doctissimorum
virorum in Vetus et Novum Testamentum_ (Amsterdam, 1698, in 9 vols.
folio, or London, 1660, in 10 vols. folio). Amongst the works of
Drusius not to be found in this collection may be mentioned--(1)
_Alphabetum Hebraicum vetus_ (1584, 4to); (2) _Tabulae in grammaticam
Chaldaicam ad usum juventutis_ (1602, 8vo); (3) An edition of
Sulpicius Severus (Franeker, 1807, 12mo); (4) _Opuscula quae ad
grammaticam spectant omnia_ (1609, 4to); (5) _Lacrymae in obitum J.
Scaligeri_ (1609, 4to); and (6) _Grammatica linguae sanctae nova_
(1612, 4to).

DRUSUS, MARCUS LIVIUS, Roman statesman, was colleague of Gaius Gracchus
in the tribuneship, 122 B.C. The proposal of Gracchus (q.v.) to confer
the full franchise on the Latins had been opposed not only by the
senate, but also by the mob, who imagined that their own privileges
would thereby be diminished. Drusus threatened to veto the proposal.
Encouraged by this, the senatorial party put up Drusus to outbid
Gracchus. Gracchus had proposed to found colonies outside Italy; Drusus
provided twelve in Italy, to each of which 3000 citizens were to be
sent. Gracchus had proposed to distribute allotments to the poorer
citizens subject to a state rent-charge; Drusus promised them free of
all charge, and further that they should be inalienable. In addition to
the franchise, immunity from corporal punishment (even in the field) was
promised the Latins. The abse