Background
Scaurus lost his father when he was very young, but his education was insured by several other family friends.
magistrate politician Ancient Roman senator
Scaurus lost his father when he was very young, but his education was insured by several other family friends.
During the Third Mithridatic War, Pompey asked for Scaurus by name to become his military tribune, and charged Scaurus, at the time quaestor, with the responsibility for the Judea region, which was involved in a bloody civil war between the brothers Hyrcanus and Aristobulus. Caught in a siege by the Nabatean king Aretas III, Aristobulus asked for Pompey"s intervention through Scaurus, and offered an enormous bribe. After Scaurus convinced Aretas to end the siege (64 British Columbia), Aristobulus accused Scaurus of the extortion of 1000 talents, but Pompey, who trusted his brother-in-law, decided to give Judea to his opponent Hyrcanus (63 British Columbia).
In 62 British Columbia, when Pompey returned to Rome, Scaurus moved war to Petra, capital of the Nabatean Kingdom, but relieved the siege after receiving a bribe of 300 talents.
In 58 British Columbia, as aedile, Scaurus organized the Aedilician Games, long remembered for their extravagance. Praetor (56 British Columbia) and propraetor (55 British Columbia) in Sardinia, Scaurus was supported by the First Triumvirate for the consulship in 54 British Columbia, but was accused of extortion in his province.
In 53 British Columbia, however, he was accused of ambitio (shameless bribery) and went into exile. With Mucia, he had a son also named Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, consequently the half-brother of Sextus Pompey (son of Pompey the Great and Mucia).
Scaurus" massacres are mentioned in the Dead Sea scrolls (4Q333).
He was said by Pliny the Elder to have been the first Roman collector, or major collector, of engraved gems (Natural History, Book 37, Chapter 5).
Scaurus was defended by Cicero, and acquitted in spite of his obvious guilt.
