Libo, Scribonius
, a plebeian family.
Lucius Scribonius Libo
tribune of the plebs, B.C. 149, accused Ser. Sulpicius Galba on account of the outrages
which he had committed against the Lusitanians. (See
Galba [1]). It was perhaps this Libo who consecrated the
Puteal
Scribonianum or
Puteal Libonis, of which we so frequently read in
ancient writers (
Hor. Sat. ii. 6, 35). (See
Puteal.)
Lucius Scribonius Libo
The father-in-law of Sex. Pompey, the son of Pompey the Great. On the breaking out of the
Civil War in B.C. 49, he naturally sided with Pompey, and was intrusted with the command of
Etruria. Shortly afterwards he accompanied Pompey to Greece, and was actively engaged in the
war that ensued. On the death of Bibulus (B.C. 48) he had the chief command of the Pompeian
fleet. In the Civil Wars which followed Caesar's death, he followed the fortunes of his
son-in-law Sex. Pompey. In B.C. 40 Octavianus married his sister Scribonia, and this marriage
was followed by a peace between the triumvirs and Pompey (B.C. 39). When the war was renewed
in 36, Libo for a time continued with Pompey, but, seeing his cause hopeless, he deserted him
in the following year. In 34 he was consul with M. Antonius.
