Libo Rupilius Frugi (died 101) was a Roman senator and an ancestor of the emperor

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. He served as

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in 88.

Life

His full name may have been Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi. He was one of the sons and among the children born to Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi (consul 64) with his wife Sulpicia Praetextata, daughter of the suffect consul in 46,

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and a grandson of Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, who had been consul in 27 and Scribonia. His brother

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Vasily Rudich, ''Political Dissidence Under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation'', Routledge had been a consul in 87. The father of Frugi was executed by the emperor

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between 66 and 68, because of information brought against him by Marcus Aquilius Regulus.J. Shelton, ''The Women of Pliny's Letters'', p. 153. Routledge, 2013 After the death of his father, his mother took him with his siblings, to a

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meeting in 70 early in the reign of

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, seeking vengeance for his father's death. Regulus and his associates were prosecuted by the Senate.S.H. Rutledge, ''Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian (Google eBook)'', p. 119. Routledge, 2002 The ''

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'' states that Frugi was of consular rank and refers to him as a former consul.Augustan History, ''Marcus Aurelius'', 1.4, where ''Rupili Boni'' is emended to ''Rupili Libonis'' Frugi served as a suffect consul in 88.Brian W. Jones, ''The Emperor Domitian'', pp. 165-6. Routledge He has been identified with the ex-consul "Libo Frugi" whom

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reports as speaking aggressively in the Senate concerning the case of Norbanus Licinianus.

Family

Frugi was father of Rupilia Faustina, the paternal grandmother of

. Frugi was married to Salonia Matidia, the niece of the emperor

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, but that marriage is too late for Salonia to be Faustina's mother. Historians

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and Strachan have proposed that Faustina's mother was instead Vitellia Galeria Fundania, daughter of emperor

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References

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