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

Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: áːɾkus̠ auɾέːli.us̠ antɔ́ːni.us̠ English: ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good ...

. He served as suffect consul 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 Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi (flourished 1st century AD) was a Ancient Rome, Roman nobleman of consular rank who lived during the Roman Empire. Frugi's mother was an unnamed Roman woman, while his father was consul and governor Marcus Licinius Cr ...

(consul 64) with his wife

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, daughter of the suffect consul in 46,

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and a grandson of

, who had been consul in 27 and Scribonia. His brother

Gaius Calpurnius Piso Crassus Frugi Licinianus Gaius Calpurnius Piso Crassus Frugi Licinianus (died 118) was a Roman senator who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries. He served as suffect consul for the ''nundinium'' January to April 87, replacing the emperor Domitian. Crassus is best known for ...

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

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.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

Trajan Trajan ( ; la, Caesar Nerva Traianus; 18 September 539/11 August 117) was Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Officially declared ''optimus princeps'' ("best ruler") by the senate, Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presi ...

, 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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