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Scaevola (Quintus Mucius Scaevola), d. 82 B.C., Roman jurist. He was tribune of the people (106 B.C.) and consul (95 B.C.) with Lucius Licinius Crassus (see under Crassus Lucius Licinius Crassus, d. 91 B.C., a noted orator and lawyer (much admired by Cicero). He was a strict follower of constitutional forms, and he and Scaevola as consuls in 95 B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. , family); together they collaborated on a law that caused a purge of the rolls of citizenship. The wholesale disfranchisement of allies under this law brought on the Social War. He was proconsular governor of Asia, where the people esteemed him highly. Later he was elected pontifex maximus, but his sacred inviolability did not prevent his murder in the proscription of Marius Marius, Caius (mâr`ēəs), c.157 B.C.–86 B.C., Roman general. A plebeian, he became tribune (119 B.C.) and praetor (115 B. ..... Click the link for more information. . He made a systematic compilation of the civil law. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Charlie Nardozzi, the Hilton Garden Inn's chief gardening officer, suggests multicolored canna lilies surrounded by white bacopa and purple wave petunias; salmon geraniums with blue lobelia and white alyssum; or butterfly-attracting red nicotiana planted in a sea of blue scaevola. 76) Portraits of Roman military heroes like Brutus, Mucius Scaevola, Camillus, Decius Mus and Scipio Africanus held prominent places in the decorative programme for the Sala dei Gigli in the palace begun in the 1470s. Here are some possible options: multi-colored canna lilies surrounded by white bacopa and purple Wave petunias; salmon geraniums with blue lobelia and white alyssum cascading over the pot edge; or butterfly-attracting red nicotiana planted in a sea of blue scaevola. |
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