Drusus, M. Livius, a tribune of the people at Rome in 122 B.C., but a stanch supporter of the aristocracy; after passing a veto on a popular measure proposed by Gracchus his democratic colleague, proposed the same measure himself in order to show and prove to the people that the patricians were their best friends; the success of this policy gained him the name of “patron of the senate.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Druses * Drusus, M. Livius