Marcus Livius Drusus Libo
{{short description|Consul of the Roman Empire}}
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Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus (possibly adopted)
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Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (adoptive)
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Marcus Livius Drusus Libo was an ancient Roman consul of the early Roman Empire. He was the son of Lucius Scribonius LiboSyme, R. Augustan Aristocracy (1989), pp. 257–258 and adopted brother of the empress Livia. His natural paternal aunt was Scribonia, the second wife of Augustus, as a consequence of which he was a maternal first cousin of Julia the Elder.
Biography
He is believed to have been adopted by Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus,Syme, R., Augustan Aristocracy (1989), p. 257Weinrib, E.J., 'The Family Connections of M. Livius Drusus Libo' the father of Livia Drusilla, who was the third wife of Augustus.
However, as a result of his 'L.f.' filiation attested in Book 54 of the Roman History of Cassius Dio,Cassius Dio, Roman History [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/54*.html 54] it is believed that his adoption was only testamentarySyme, R., Augustan Aristocracy (1989), pp. 257/8 (whereby the adoptee is permitted to use, and therefore carry on, the name of the adoptor).Gardner, J.F., Family and familia in Roman law and life (1998), [https://books.google.com/books?id=cjYRiUEE_fAC&pg=PA129 p. 129]
The career of Marcus Livius Drusus Libo is largely unknown, except that he was ordinary consul in 15 BC with Lucius Calpurnius Piso. Livius Drusus served as an aedile in 28 BC, shortly before the Pantheon in Rome was completed. Historian Pliny the ElderNatural History xxxvi. 15. s. 24 mentions him among those in Rome who hosted the Secular Games during Augustus' reign. There is also a possibility that he was a member of the Arval Brethren.Syme, R., Augustan Aristocracy (1989), p. 46
Marriage and family
No wife is attested for Marcus Livius Drusus Libo, but there has been speculation that he was married to a Pompeia.{{Cite book|title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustr. by numerous engravings on wood. In 3 vols|last=Smith|first=William|publisher=Walton, Murray|year=1876|pages=1076|volume=1}} Christian Settipani has speculated that she may have been a Cornelia.Settipani, Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, pp. 297 Livia Medullina Camilla, whom Claudius was intended to marry in AD 8, but who died on the day of their wedding, is assumed to be Libo's granddaughter, based on her name.Suetonius, "The Life of Claudius", [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html#26 26.1]. Her name suggests that she was the daughter of Marcus Furius Camillus and a woman named 'Livia', supposed to have been the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Libo.Syme, R., Augustan Aristocracy (1989), p. 259Weinrib, E.J., 'The Family Connections of M. Livius Drusus Libo' Libo's otherwise unattested wife has been nicknamed Livia Scriboniana by historians.{{Cite book|title=Arctos: acta philologica Fennica. Nova series|publisher=Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Kirjapaino Oy [etc.]|year=1986|pages=66|volume=20–21}}{{Cite book|title=The Republic in Danger: Drusus Libo and the Succession of Tiberius|last=Pettinger|first=Andrew|publisher=OUP Oxford|year=2012|isbn=9780199601745|pages=230}}
Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus and Lucius Scribonius Libo, consul in AD 16, may have been Libo's sons or grandsons, or perhaps adopted fraternal nephews.{{Cite book|title=The Republic in Danger: Drusus Libo and the Succession of Tiberius|last=Pettinger|first=Andrew|publisher=OUP Oxford|year=2012|isbn=9780199601745|pages=222}}{{Cite book |title=Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family |last=Hallett |first=Judith P. |author-link=Judith P. Hallett |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2014 |isbn=9781400855322 |pages=159 |series=Princeton Legacy Library |volume=682}}
Footnotes
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References
- Cassius Dio, Roman History [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html]
- Gardner, J.F.; Family and familia in Roman law and life (Oxford University Press, 1998) {{ISBN|0-19-815217-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-19-815217-0}}
- Syme, Ronald; Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford University Press, 1989). {{ISBN|0-19-814731-7}}, {{ISBN|978-0-19-814731-2}}
- Suetonius, Life of Claudius [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/]
- Weinrib, E.J.; 'The Family Connections of M. Livius Drusus Libo', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 72 (1968), pp. 247–278.
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{{s-bef|before=Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus,
and Lucius Tarius Rufus}}
{{s-ttl|title=Consul of the Roman Empire|regent1=Lucius Calpurnius Piso|years=15 BC}}
{{s-aft|after=Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi,
and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Augur}}
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Category:1st-century BC births
Category:1st-century BC Romans
Category:Imperial Roman consuls
Category:Year of birth unknown