Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus

Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus († September 13, 16 AD in Rome) was a Roman senator at the beginning of the imperial era.

Libo Drusus was probably the grandson (according to older reconstructions, the son) of Lucius Scribonius Libo ( consul 34 BC) and was adopted by Marcus Livius Drusus Libo (consul 15 BC). His great-aunt was Scribonia , temporarily wife of the Emperor Augustus . Through his mother Pompeia Magna, he was great-grandson of the triumvir Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus .

He was praetor in AD 16; his brother Lucius was consul that same year. In that year Libo Drusus was accused before the Senate , primarily by Numerius Vibius Serenus , of planning an overthrow against Emperor Tiberius and of having consulted fortune tellers and astrologers. According to Tacitus' account, it was a long-drawn-out intrigue that Libo Drusus was unable to refute, although most of the allegations were ridiculous. However, since the Senate decided to question Libo's slaves under torture, it asked that the trial be suspended for a day and, against Scribonia's advice, committed suicide before the trial was over. Only then did Tiberius declare that he had voted for an acquittal. Libo's property was divided among the prosecutors.

literature

Werner Eck : Scribonius [II 6]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 305.
Thomas Gärtner: Drusus Libo as an example of a well-considered suicide (Sen. epist. 70, 10) . In: Klio . Vol. 92, 2010, No. 2, pp. 411-422 (not viewed).
Andrew Pettinger: The Republic in Danger: Drusus Libo and the Succession of Tiberius . Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2012, ISBN 9780199601745 .
Prosopographia Imperii Romani , Pars VII, Fasciculus II, de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, pp. 104-105 (PIR² S 268. restricted preview in the Google book search).

Remarks

^ Tacitus , Annals 2, 32.
↑ Ronald Syme , The Augustan aristocracy (1986), pp. 256-257.
^ John Scheid : Scribonia Caesaris et les Julio-Claudiens: Problèmes de vocabulaire de parenté . In: Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome. Antiquité 87, 1975, pp. 349-375 ( online ) considers Livius Drusus Libo to be the biological father of Libo Drusus.
↑ She was a daughter of Pompeia, daughter of Pompeius Magnus, and Lucius Cornelius Cinna ; see. Syme, The Augustan aristocracy (1986), p. 257, and the Stemma in Prosopographia Imperii Romani VII, II, p. 103.
↑ Tacitus, Annalen , 2, 27-32.
↑ Seneca , epistulae 70, 10.

personal data
SURNAME	Scribonius Libo Drusus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Libo Drusus, Marcus Scribonius; Drusus, Marcus Scribonius Libo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman politician, praetor 16
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	13th September 16
Place of death	Rome

[1] Tacitus , Annals 2, 32.

[2] Ronald Syme , The Augustan aristocracy (1986), pp. 256-257.

[3] John Scheid : Scribonia Caesaris et les Julio-Claudiens: Problèmes de vocabulaire de parenté . In: Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome. Antiquité 87, 1975, pp. 349-375 ( online ) considers Livius Drusus Libo to be the biological father of Libo Drusus.

[4] She was a daughter of Pompeia, daughter of Pompeius Magnus, and Lucius Cornelius Cinna ; see. Syme, The Augustan aristocracy (1986), p. 257, and the Stemma in Prosopographia Imperii Romani VII, II, p. 103.

[5] Tacitus, Annalen , 2, 27-32.

[6] Seneca , epistulae 70, 10.