Publius Mucius Scaevola

Publius Mucius Scaevola was a Roman statesman and jurist who lived from about 176 BC to about 115 BC. He served as tribune of the plebs in 141 BC, praetor in 136 BC, and consul in 133 BC alongside Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, then held the office of pontifex maximus from 130 BC until his death around 115 BC. Ancient writers regarded him as a jurist of exceptional standing; Plutarch described him as foremost in virtue and reputation among the legal experts of his day. As pontifex maximus he published the final version of the Annales Maximi, the official Roman chronicle of events and magistrates that priests had maintained since around 400 BC. Later tradition, recorded by the jurist Pomponius, named him together with Manius Manilius and Marcus Junius Brutus as one of the three founders of Roman civil law as a systematic discipline.