Marcus Annius Libo was a
Roman
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Senator
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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, consul III in 126, and
Rupilia Faustina
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. Annius Verus was
Spanish
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of
Roman
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descent. Rupilia was the daughter of
Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus and
Vitellia (daughter of emperor
Vitellius
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). Libo is known to have had three siblings, two sisters and one brother. His elder sister was the Empress
Faustina the Elder
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(mother of the Empress
Faustina the Younger
Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger ( AD, – 175/176 AD) was Roman empress from 161 to her death as the wife of emperor Marcus Aurelius, cousin marriage, her maternal cousin. Faustina was the youngest child of emperor Antoninus Pius and empress F ...
) and his younger sister (whose name is missing, but surmised to be ''Annia'') was the wife of
Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Sertorius Severus, suffect consul in 118. His brother was
Marcus Annius Verus, the father of Marcus Aurelius.
He was
consul
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in 128 as the colleague of
Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas. Libo was the paternal uncle of the
Emperor
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Marcus Aurelius
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.
Beyond his consulship, almost nothing is known of his senatorial career. During the reign of his brother-in-law,
Antoninus Pius
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, he was one of seven witnesses to a
Senatus consultum
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issued to the city of
Cyzicus
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in 138, which sought approval for establishing a ''corpus juvenum'' for the education of young men.
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.
[Birley, ''Marcus Aurelius'', p. 236] They are known to have together two children:
*
Marcus Annius Libo, suffect consul in 161. He is known to have a son,
Marcus Annius Flavius Libo.
*
Annia Fundania Faustina, wife of
Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio, consul II in 176
Sources
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Nerva–Antonine dynasty
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2nd-century Roman consuls
Year of birth unknown
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