sentences:  Drusus' friend Gaius Aurelius Cotta was among the exiled, while his mentor Marcus Scaurus, the "princeps senatus", was also accused.In the longer term, later generations of Roman historians considered Drusus' tribunate a critical milestone in the Crisis of the Roman Republic.Appian, Livy, and Florus all placed Drusus' " "seditio" " within a clear sequence of similar disorders.