first prosecution. Cicero again attempted to defend him and a mob assembled to protest the prosecution, but Pompey sent men to disperse the mob and Scaurus was convicted. Pompey's hostility may have been for Scaurus' marriage to Pompey's former wife Mucia. Scaurus was then expelled from the senate and thence went into exile. Nothing is known of his further fate. Issue Scaurus had one child of the same name with his wife Mucia, who had previously been married to Pompey the Great. This younger Scarus sided with Antony during the War of Actium but was pardoned at Mucia's request. See also Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) References Citations Sources External links Pliny on gem collecting 1st-century BC Roman governors of Syria 1st-century BC Roman generals Scaurus, Marcus Roman governors of Sardinia Roman Republican praetors