Lucius Scribonius Libo (consul 34 BC)

Lucius Scribonius Libo was a Roman politician and military commander who was consul in 34 BC and brother-in-law to the future emperor Augustus.

[2] In 50 BC the Senate, led by Pompey, ordered populist politician and general Julius Caesar to disband his army and return to Rome because his term as governor had ended.

[4] After Libo was driven from Etruria by Mark Antony, he took over command of the new recruits in Campania from Ampius Balbus.

They followed this up by defeating Gaius Antonius, who had attempted to assist Dolabella, and who was forced to flee to Corcyra Nigra.

[12] With Bibulus's death in early 48 BC, Libo was given command of the Pompeian fleet, comprising some fifty galleys.

[13] He continued blockading Oricum, but came to the conclusion that, if he could close off Brundisium from the sea, he could cut Caesar off from reinforcements, and could redeploy the fleet elsewhere.

[17] Octavian attempted to drive a wedge between Sextus Pompey and Mark Antony by marrying Libo's sister, Scribonia.

By 35 BC Libo felt his son-in-law's cause was lost; he abandoned Sextus and joined Mark Antony.

[22] By the time he became a consul he had been appointed as one of the seven Septemviri epulones, the religious body responsible for organising feasts and public banquets for festivals and games in Rome.

The name of his wife is not known, but she was a member of the gens Sulpicia, the family from which Roman emperor Galba would claim descent on his paternal side.