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780 LIBO. LIBO.
called from its being open at the top, like a puteal soon afterwards escaped his vigilance and joined
or well. C. F. Hermann, who has carefully exa- Caesar in Greece. (Caes. B. C. iii. 15, 16, 18, 23,
mined all the passages in ancient writers relating 24; Dion Cass. xli. 48.)
to it (Ind. Lect. Marburg. 1840), comes to the con- MWe hear nothing more of Libo for some time,
clusion that there was only such puteal at Rome, but he probably did not make his submission to
and not two, as was formerly believed, and that it Caesar after the battle of Pharsalia, but united
was dedicated in very ancient times either on ac- himself to those of his party who continued in arms.
count of the whetstone of the augur Navius (comp. At the death of the dictator in B. C. 44, we find
Liv. i. 36), or because the spot had been struck by him in Spain with his son-in-law Sex. Pompey, on
lightning; that it was subsequently repaired and whose behalf he wrote to the ruling party at Rome.
re-dedicated by Scribonius Libo, who had been (Cic. ad Att. xvi. 4.) He continued with Pompey
commanded to examine the state of the sacred in the civil wars which followed, and is specially
places (Festus, s. v. Scribonianum); and that Libo mentioned, in B. c. 40, as one of the persons of high
erected in its neighbourhood a tribunal for the rank who was commissioned to conduct to Antony
praetor, in consequence of which the place was of in the East his mother Julia, who had taken refuge
course frequented by persons who had law-suits, with Sex. Pompey in Sicily after the Perusinian
such as money lenders and the like. (Comp. Hor. war. This mission alarmed Octavian. He feared
Sat. ii. 6. 35, Epist. i. 19. 8; Ov. Reined. Amor. that Pompey, who was now decidedly master of
561; Cic. pro Sex. 8.) the sea, should'unite with Antony to crush him;
and, in order to gain the favour of the former and of
~s/ /~ A'his father-in-law Libo, he proposed, on the advice,
i gt 0 >@,oxT @/ 8 >STof Maecenas, to marry Libo's sister, Scribonia, al(q ~ i @ @ ~~oi. O o though she was much older than himself, and had
oZ~~~~ lill%%tbeen married twice before. The marriage shortly
after took place, and paved the way for a peace
N. glbg <(S@ 7 between the triumvirs and Pompey. This was
negotiated in the following year (B. C. 39) by Libo,
COIN OF L. SCRIBONIUS LIO. Ewho crossed over from Sicily to Italy for the purCOIN OF L. SCRIBONIUS LIBO.
pose, and it was finally settled at Misenum. When
4. L. SCRiBoNIus LIBO, the father-in-law of the war was renewed in B. C. 36, Libo for a time
Sex. Pompey, the son of Pompey the Great, and continued faithful to Pompey, but, seeing his cause
consul B. C. 34, is first mentioned in B. C. 56, in hopeless, he deserted him in the following year. In
which year he appears to have been tribune, as B. C. 34, he was consul with M. Antony, as had
supporting Pompey's views in relation to the affairs been agreed at the peace of Misenum. As his
of Egypt in the case of Ptolemy Auletes. (Cic. ad name does not occur again in history, he probably
Fans. i. 1.) On the breaking out of the civil war died soon afterwards. (Appian, B. C. v. 52, 53,
in B. C. 49, Libo naturally sided with Pompey, and 69-73, 139; Dion Cass. xlviii. 16, xlix. 38.)
was entrusted with the command of Etruria. But 5. The M. Livius DRUsvs LIBO, who'was conthe rapid approach of Caesar, and the enthusiasm sul B.C. 15, is supposed to have been a younger
with which he was every where received, obliged brother of No. 4, and to have been adopted by one
Libo to retire from Etruria and join the consuls in of the Drusi. He is spoken of under DRUsvs,
Campania, from whence he subsequently proceeded No. 8.
with the rest of the Pompeian party to Brundisium. 6. L. SCRIBONIUS LIBO DRUSUS, or LIno DRUWhile here Caesar sent to him Caninius Rebilus, sus, as he is also called, the conspirator, against
who was anrintimate friend of Libo, to persuade Tiberius, A. D. 16, is supposed to have been a son
him to use his influence with Pompey to effect a of the preceding [No. 5]. For an account of him
reconciliation; but nothing came of this negotia- see DRvsus, No. 10.
tion. (Flor. iv. 2, ~ 21; Lucan, ii. 461; Cic. ad 7. L. SCRIBONIUS LIBo, son, probably, of No. 4,
Att. vii. 12, viii. 11, b; Caes. B. C. i. 26.) was consul in A. D. 16, with T. Statilius Sisenna
Libo accompanied Pompey to Greece, and was Taurus. (Dion Cass. lvii. 15; Tac. Ann. ii. 1.)
actively engaged in the war that ensued. He and LIBO, CN. STATI'LIUS, known only from
M. Octavius were placed over the Liburnian and coins, a specimen of which is given below. On the
Achaean fleets, serving as legates to Bibulus, who obverse is a head with CN. STATI. LIBO, and on
had the supreme command of the Pompeian fleet. the reverse a patera or discus, and a vessel used
They were very successful against Caesar's generals apparently in sacrifices, with SACERDOS. On some
in Dalmatia; Dolabella they drove out of the specimens we find PRAEF. (i. e. Praefectus). The
country, and C. Antonius they not only defeated coin was certainly not struck in Italy; and it has
but made prisoner. (Caes. B. C. iii. 5; Dion Cass. been conjectured that it was struck in Spain, and
xli. 40; Florus, iv. 2. ~ 31; Oros. vi. 15.) Libo that the head on the obverse represents that of M.
subsequently joined Bibulus; and, on the death of Agrippa. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 316.)
the latter shortly afterwards, the chief authority in
the fleet appears to have devolved upon him,'although no one was expressly appointed to the /
supreme command. With fifty ships he appeared ~!
before Brundisium, in order to blockade the
place strictl, as M. Antony was still there with
part of Caesar's troops, waiting for an opportunity a
to cross over to Greece. But having suffered a
repulse from Antony, and being prevented by the
cavalry of the latter from obtaining any water, Libo
was obliged to retire from nthe place, and Antony