nce of Gracchus, and the inefficiency of
his representative at Rome, led to the acceptance of these proposals,
which were never intended to be carried. Drusus himself declined all
responsibility in connexion with carrying them out. He was rewarded for
his services by the consulship (112), and the title of _patronus
senatus_. He received Macedonia for his province, where he distinguished
himself in a campaign against the Scordisci, whom he drove across the
Danube, being the first Roman general who reached that river. It is
possible that he is the Drusus mentioned by Plutarch as having died in
109, the year of his censorship.

Appian, _Bell. Civ._ i. 23; Plutarch, _Gaius Gracchus_, 8-11; Florus
iii. 4; A. H. J. Greenidge, _Hist. of Rome_, vol. i. (1904).

His son, MARCUS LIVIUS DRUSUS, became tribune of the people in 91 B.C.
He was a thoroughgoing conservative, wealthy and generous, and a man of
high integrity. With some of the more intelligent members of his party
(such as Marcus Scaurus and L. Licinius Crassus the orator) he
recognized the need of reform. At that time an agitation was going on
for the transfer of the judicial functions from the equites to the
senate; Drusus proposed as a compromise a measure which restored to the
senate the office of judices, while its numbers were doubled by the
admission of 300 equites. Further, a special commission was to be
appointed to try and sentence all judices guilty of taking bribes. But
the senate was lukewarm, and the equites, whose occupation was
threatened, offered the most violent opposition. In order, therefore, to
catch the popular votes, Drusus proposed the establishment of colonies
in Italy and Sicily, and an increased distribution of corn at a reduced
rate. By help of these riders the bill was carried. Drusus now sought a
closer alliance with the Italians, promising them the long-coveted boon
of the Roman franchise. The senate broke out into open opposition. His
laws were abrogated as informal, and each party armed its adherents for
the civil struggle which was now inevitable. Drusus was stabbed one
evening as he was returning home. His assassin was never discovered.

See Rome: _History_, ii. "The Republic" (Period C); also Appian,
_Bell. Civ._ i. 35; Florus iii. 17; Diod. Sic. xxxvii. 10; Livy,
_Epit._ 70; Vell. Pat. ii. 13.

DRUSUS, NERO[1] CLAUDIUS (38-9 B.C.) Roman general, son of Tiberius
Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla, stepson of Augustus a