Labiēnus
1.
Titus, one of Caesar's lieutenants in the Gallic war. In the
beginning of the civil war he left Caesar for Pompey (
B. C. iii. 13), escaped
from the battle of Pharsalia, and was killed in that at Munda (
B. H. 31).
Labienus appears to have parted with almost all his former success on abandoning the side of
his old commander.
2.
Quintus, a son of the preceding, who inherited
all his father's hatred of the party of Caesar. After the defeat of Brutus and Cassius, he
refused to submit to the triumvirs, and retired to Parthia, where he was invested with a
military command, and proved very serviceable to his new allies in their contests with the
Romans. He was made prisoner in Cilicia, and probably put to death. Labienus caused medals to
be struck, having on the obverse his head, with this legend, Q. Labienus
Parthicus Imper., and on the reverse a horse caparisoned after the Parthian manner.
3.
Titus, an orator and author of the time of Augustus, who
distinguished himself by his bitter opposition to the imperial régime. The Senate
decreed that his writings should be publicly burned; whereupon he shut himself up in his
ancestral tomb and died there, about A.D. 12 (
Suet.
Cal. 16).
