Marcus Annius Libo

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Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman Senator active in the early second century AD.

Life

Libo came from the upper ranks of the Roman aristocracy. He was the son of

Marcus Annius Verus, the father of Marcus Aurelius.[3]

He was

.

Beyond his consulship, almost nothing is known of his senatorial career. During the reign of his brother-in-law, Antoninus Pius, he was one of seven witnesses to a Senatus consultum issued to the city of Cyzicus in 138, which sought approval for establishing a corpus juvenum for the education of young men.[5]

Family

Libo married a noblewoman whose name has been surmised as Fundania, daughter of Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus, consul in 116, and wife Rupilia Annia.[6] They are known to have together two children:

Nerva–Antonine family tree

Sources

  1. ^ Rupilius. Strachan stemma.
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  3. ^ Based on the stemma provided by Anthony Birley, Marcus Aurelius: A Biography, revised edition (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 236
  4. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 470
  5. ^ Birley, Marcus Aurelius, p. 54
  6. ^ Birley, Marcus Aurelius, p. 236
Political offices
Preceded byas suffect consuls Succeeded by
Quintus Pomponius Maternus
as suffect consuls