Marcus Annius Libo (consul 161)
Marcus Annius Libo (died 163) was a
Early life
Libo came from a Roman family that had settled in Hispania generations before, and had returned to Rome more recently. His father was Marcus Annius Libo, consul in 128, and his mother was a noblewoman whose name has been surmised as Fundania, daughter of Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus, consul in 116. Libo had a sister, Annia Fundania Faustina, wife of Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio, whose second consulship was in 176.
Governor of Syria
The only portion of his
As governor, Libo quarreled with the emperor Lucius, taking the attitude that he would only follow the instructions that Marcus gave him. This angered Lucius, so when Libo suddenly died,[3] rumor claimed that Lucius had Libo poisoned.[4]
Family
When Libo died, Lucius Verus defied Marcus and married Libo's widow to his Greek
References
- ^ Werner Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regierungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013), p. 80
- ^ Birley, Marcus Aurelius: A Biography, revised edition (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 125
- ^ Géza Alföldy dates Libo's death to 163 (Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 240)
- ^ Historia Augusta, "Lucius Verus", 9.2
- ^ Birley, Marcus Aurelius, p. 131
- ^ Settipani, Christian (2000). Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale mythe et réalité (in Italian). Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre College, University of Oxford. p. 185.