Initially cognomen in the gens Livia (ThlL, Onom. 3,256-260). According to Suet. Tib. 3,2, an otherwise unknown Livius (in the 3rd cent. BC) assumed the epithet, after he had won a duel with the Celtic leader Drausus, and passed it on to his family. Through Livia's first marriage, with Ti. Claudius [I 19] Nero, the cognomen passed into the Claudian branch of the domus Augusta through her son Nero Claudius [II 24] (D. Maior), brother of the second Princeps Tiberius; D. appears in the name of the son of D. Maior, Germanic…
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum), Will, Wolfgang (Bonn) and Eck, Werner (Cologne), “Drusus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 02 April 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e324560>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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