Lucius Scribonius Libo (Consul 34 BC)
Lucius Scribonius Libo (* around 90 BC?) Was a Roman politician and general at the end of the republic.
He is around 62 BC. Attested as a mint master and was possibly 56 BC. Chr. Tribune . In the civil war he was 49 BC. Legate of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and commanded together with Marcus Octavius naval units in the Adriatic, with which he defeated Publius Cornelius Dolabella and captured Gaius Antonius . After the death of Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus in 48 BC. He took command of the Pompeian fleet, but could not prevent Mark Antony from translating from Brundisium to Greece.
After the Battle of Pharsalus , Libo retired into private life for a few years. When the triumvirs 43 BC Chr. , Proscribed , he went to his son Sextus Pompey to Sicily, whose key adviser he was in the following years. Libo brokered the marriage of his sister Scribonia with Octavian (later Augustus ), which led to a rapprochement between Sextus Pompeius and the triumvirs. In the Treaty of Misenum 39 BC He was intended as consul for the following year, but could not take office after the civil war broke out again. After the death of Pompey in 35 BC BC Libo joined Marcus Antonius, with whom he established the consulate in 34 BC. Clad.
His grandchildren (sons according to older reconstructions) were Lucius Scribonius Libo , consul 16 AD, and Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus , who was charged with conspiracy against Tiberius in 16 AD .
literature
- Walter Eder : Scribonius I. 10. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 54.
Remarks
- ↑ Cicero , ad familiares 1, 1, 3; on this Ronald Syme , The Augustan aristocracy (1986), p. 255.
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| SURNAME | Scribonius Libo, Lucius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Libo, Lucius Scribonius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician, consul 34 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 90 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 35 BC Chr. |