A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

"LIBO..IBO.'779
celebrated their victory by a triumph. (Eatrop. ii. Samnites, near Caudium, and afterwards proceeded
17; Fasti Triumph.) to lay siege to Beneventum; but, according to the
LIBO, Q. MA'RCIUS. This name is found triumphal Fasti, it was Sulpicius alone who obonly on Roman asses, semisses, and trientes. A spe- tained the honour of a triumph. (Liv. ix. 24-28
cimen of one of these coins is annexed, containing Diod. xix. 73.)
on the obverse the head of Jupiter, with S (the LIBO, SCRIBO'NIUS, a plebeian family,
sign of Semissis), and on the reverse the prow of a which afterwards became illustrious from its conship. nection with Augustus. The name first occurs in
the second Punic war.
1. L. SCRIBONIvs LIBO, tribune of the plebs,
B. C. 216, in which year the fatal battle of Cannae?__/ /was fought, brought forward a motion for ransomt9 ing the Roman prisoners taken in that engagement,
i 2, ( x 5OXX~~~~ l but it was rejected by the senate. A relation of
his, L. Scribonius, was one of the prisoners, who
was sent to Rome by Hannibal to negotiate the
terms of the ransom. In the same year Libo was
created one of the triumviri mensarii. (Liv. xxii.
COIN OF Q. MARCIUS LIBO. 61, xxiii. 21.)
LIBO, POETE'LIUS, a plebeian family (Dio- 2. L. SCRIBONIvs Lino, probably son of the
nys. x. 58), most of the -members of which likewise preceding, was praetor, B. C. 204, and received the
bear the agnomen Visolus. perogrina jurisdictio and the province of Gaul. (Liv.
1. Q. POETELIUS LIBO VISOLUS, a member of xxix. 11, 13.)
the second decemvirate, B. C. 450. (Liv. iii. 35; 3. L. SCRIBONIUS LIBO, curule aedile, B. c. 193,
Dionys. x. 58, xi. 23.) with. C. Atilius Serranus. They were the first
2. C. POETE.LIUS, C. F. Q. N. LIBO VISOLUS, aediles who exhibited the Megalesia as ludi scenici;
perhaps a grandson of No. 1, was consul B. C. 360, and it was also in their aedileship that the senators
with M. Fabius Ambustus. He gained a victory had seats assigned them in the theatre distinct
over the Gauls and the inhabitants of Tibur, and from the'rest of the people. In B. C. 192, Libo
celebrateda triumph over both nations. In the Fasti was consul, and obtained the peregrina jurisdictio,
Capitolini the name of Peetelius occurs in the form and in.B.C. 185 he was appointed one of. the
which is given above.' Livy calls him C. Poetelius triumviri *to conduct colonists to Sipontum and
Balbus, and Diodorus gives the name without any Buxentum. (Liv. xxxiv. 54; Ascon. in Cic. Cornel.
cognomen. (Fasti Capit.; Liv. vii. 11; Diod. p. 69, ed. Orelli; Liv. xxxv. 10, 20, xxxix. 23.);vi. 9.) 4. L. SCRIBONITS LIBO, probably son of No. 3,
3. C. POETELIUS, C. F. C. N., LIBO VISOLUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 149, accused in that year
son of No. 2, is distinguished in the early legisla- Ser.. Sulpicius Galba on account of the abominable,tion of the republic by two important laws which outrages which he had committed against the Lu-.he proposed. He was tribune of the plebs B. C. sitani. [GALBA, No. 6.] This accusation was
358, in which year he proposed the first law en- supported in a powerful speech by M. Cato, who
acted at Rome against bribery. (Liv. vii. 12.) was then 85 years old; but, notwithstanding the
He was consul for the first time in B. C. 346, with eloquence of the accusers and the guilt of the ac-.M. Valerius Corvus; and it was in this year that cused, Galba escaped punishment. Cicero was in
the ludi saeculares were celebrated a second time. doubt (ad: At. xii. 5, ~ 3) whether Libo was tri(Liv. vii. 27; Diod. xvi. 72; Censorin. de Die bune in B. C. 150 or 149, but it must have been
Arat. 17.) His second consulship is assigned by in the latter year that he held the office, as we are
Pighius (Annal. vol. i. p. 329) to the year B. C. expressly told that Cato spoke against Galba in the
333, though not on sufficient grounds; the consuls year of his death, and this we know was B. C. 149.
of this year it is impossible to ascertain. He was, (Liv. Epit. 49; Val.,Max. viii. 1, ~ 2; Cic. Brut.
however, undoubtedly consul1 again in B. C. 326, 23, de Orat. ii. 65; Meyer, Orator. Roman. Fragm.
with L. Papirius Mugillanus, and dictator thirteen p. 120, &c., p. 166, &c., 2d ed.) It was, perhaps,
years afterwards, B. C. 313, when he gained some this same Libo who wrote an historical work (fiber
advantages over the Samnites, though some annal- annalis), referred to once or twice by Cicero, and
ists gave the credit of these victories to the consul which must have come down at least as late as B. C.
C. Junius Bubulcus Brutus. (Liv. viii. 23, ix. 132. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 30, 32.) But Ernestihasre28; Diod. xvii. 113.) Libo was the proposer of marked, with some justice,that supposing theaccuser
the Poetelia lex, which abolished imprisonment for of Galba and the annalist were the same, it is rather
debt in the case of the nexi. (Diet. of Ant. s. v. strange that Cicero should have made no mention
ANexum.) Livy places (viii. 28) this law in the of Libo's historical compositions, when he was
last consulship of Poetelius, B. C. 326; but Nie- speaking of his style of oratory. (Comp. Krause,
buhr thinks (Rom. Hist. vol. iii. pp. 155, &c., 293) Vitae et Fragon. Histor. Ronzan. p. 138.)
it more probable that it was brought forward in his It was perhaps this same Libo who consecrated
dictatorship; and his opinion, which receives sup- the Puteal Scribonianum or PvtealLibonis, of which
port from a corrupt passage of Varro (L. L. vii. we so frequently read in ancient writers, and which
105, ed. Miiller), is adopted also by K. O. Muller is often exhibited on coins of the Scribonia gens.
(ad Varr. 1. c.). One of these is given below, the obverse represent4. M. POETELTUS, M. P. M. N. LIBO, consul ing a female head, with the, legend LIBO BON.
B. C. 314, with C. Sulpicius Longus, and magister EVENT. (that is, bonus eventus), and the reverse the
equitum in the following year, 313, to the dictator, puteal adorned with garlands and two lyres.
C. Poetelius Libo. In his consulship, Poetelius The Puteal Scribonianum was an enclosed place
and his colleague gained a brilliant victory over the in the forum, near the Arcus Fabianus, and was so