Juventius

1. a tribune of the soldiers who fell in battle in B. C. 197, when the consul Q. Minucius Rufus was defeated by the Cisalpine Gauls. (Liv. 33.22.)

2. mentioned by Livy (42.27) as one of the legati sent into Apulia and Calabria to purchase corn in B. C. 172, is probably the same as the T. Juventius Thalna who was praetor in B. C. 194. [Thalna.]

3. A comic poet, who probably lived in the middle of the second century B. C. He is referred to by Varro (L. L. 6.50, 7.65, ed. Muller) and A. Gellius (18.12).

4. praetor in B. C. 149, who was defeated and slain in battle in Macedonia by the usurper Andriscus (Pseudophilippus). [Andriscus.] (Liv. Epit. 50; Flor. 2.14; Eutrop. 4.13; Oros. 4.22.)

5. A beautiful youth, to whom Catullus has addressed several of his poems. (Carm. 24, 48, 99.)

a Roman jurist, one of the numerous auditores of Q. Mucius, P. f. Scaevola, the Pontifex Maximus. He is mentioned by Pomponius along with Aquilius Gallus, Balbus Lucilius, and Sextus Papirius, as one of the four most eminent pupils of Mucius. Nothing more is known of him. His works possessed high authority, and were incorporated by Servius Sulpicius in his own writings. In the time of Pomponius, the original productions of the disciples of Mucius were scarce, and were known chiefly through the books of Servius Sulpicius. (Dig. i. tit. 2. s. 2.42.) [J.T.G]

an advocate, who was much employed in private causes. He was a slow and rather cold speaker, but a wily disputant. He possessed considerable legal knowledge, as did also his disciple Q. Orbius, who was a contemporary of Cicero. (Brut. 48.) Ch. Ad. Ruperti thinks that the T. Juventius mentioned by Cicero is the same with the disciple of Mucius, to whom Pomponius gives the praenomen Caius. (Animad. in Enchirid Pomponii, 3.8.) [J.T.G]