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{{short description|1st century AD Roman senator and consul}}
'''Libo Rupilius Frugi''' (died 101), whose full name was '''Luciusa ScriboniusRoman Libosenator Rupiliusand Frugian Bonus''',ancestor wasof athe Romanemperor [[RomanMarcus consul|suffect consulAurelius]]. andHe aserved possible ancestor of theas [[Roman emperorconsul|emperorsuffect consul]] [[Marcusin Aurelius]]88.
 
==Life==
His full name may have been Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi.<ref>Syme, ''Roman Papers'' 4, pp. 153–154</ref> He was one of the sons and among the children born to [[Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi (consul 64)|Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi]] (consul 64) with his wife [[Sulpicia Praetextata]], daughter of the suffect consul in 46, [[Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Peticus]]<ref name="Rudich"/> and a grandson of [[Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi]], who had been consul in 27 and [[Scribonia (daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo consul 16)|Scribonia]]. His brother [[Gaius Calpurnius Piso Crassus Frugi Licinianus]]<ref name="Rudich">Vasily Rudich, ''Political Dissidence Under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation'', Routledge</ref> had been a consul in 87.<ref name="Rudich"/><ref name="jones"/> The father of Frugi was executed by the emperor [[Nero]] between 66 and 68, because of information brought against him by [[Marcus Aquilius Regulus]].<ref name="shelton">J. Shelton, ''The Women of Pliny's Letters'', p. 153. Routledge, 2013</ref> After the death of his father, his mother took him with his siblings, to a [[Roman Senate|Senate]] meeting in 70 early in the reign of [[Vespasian]], seeking vengeance for his father’sfather's death.<ref name="shelton"/> Regulus and his associates were prosecuted by the Senate.<ref name="rutledge">S.H. Rutledge, ''Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian (Google eBook)'', p. 119. Routledge, 2002</ref>
 
The ''[[Augustan History]]'' states that Frugi was of consular rank and refers to him as a former consul.<ref name="ha">Augustan History, ''Marcus Aurelius'', 1.4, where ''Rupili Boni'' is emended to ''Rupili Libonis''</ref> Frugi served as a suffect consul in 88.<ref name="jones">Brian W. Jones, ''The Emperor Domitian'', pp. 165-6. Routledge</ref> He has been identified with the ex-consul "Libo Frugi" whom [[Pliny the Younger]] reports as speaking aggressively in the Senate concerning the case of Norbanus Licinianus.<ref>[[Pliny the Younger]], ''[[Epistulae (Pliny)|Epistulae]]'' 3.9.33</ref>
 
==Family==
It has been argued that Frugi married the niece of the emperor [[Trajan]], [[Salonina Matidia]], as her third husband. If so, Frugi and Matidia were the parents of [[Rupilia Faustina]],<ref>[https://www.livius.org/man-md/matidia/matidia.html Matidia the Elder], from Livius.org.</ref> the paternal grandmother of [[Marcus Aurelius]].<ref name="ha"/><ref>"Libo Frugi's wife is unknown, but J. Carcopino, REA 51 (1949) 262 ff. argued that she was Matidia. This was supported by [[Hans-Georg Pflaum|H.-G. Pflaum]], HAC 1963 (1964) 106 f. However, Schumacher, ''Priesterkollegien'' 195 points out that Libo Frugi's daughter Rupilia Faustina can hardly have been old enough, in that case, to be the mother of Marcus' father. The only way out would be to suppose that Matidia married Libo before her other two husbands; and was divorced from him (as he was still alive in 101). The theory becomes increasingly implausible." Anthony Richard Birley, ''Marcus Aurelius'', p.&nbsp;244</ref>
Frugi was father of Rupilia Faustina, the paternal grandmother of [[Marcus Aurelius]].<ref name="ha"/> Frugi was married to [[Salonia Matidia]], the niece of the emperor [[Trajan]], but that marriage is too late for Salonia to be Faustina's mother.<ref>"Libo Frugi's wife is unknown, but J. Carcopino, REA 51 (1949) 262 ff. argued that she was Matidia. This was supported by [[Hans-Georg Pflaum|H.-G. Pflaum]], HAC 1963 (1964) 106 f. However, Schumacher, ''Priesterkollegien'' 195 points out that Libo Frugi's daughter Rupilia Faustina can hardly have been old enough, in that case, to be the mother of Marcus' father. The only way out would be to suppose that Matidia married Libo before her other two husbands; and was divorced from him (as he was still alive in 101). The theory becomes increasingly implausible." Anthony Richard Birley, ''Marcus Aurelius'', p.&nbsp;244</ref> Historians [[Christian Settipani]] and Strachan have proposed that Faustina's mother was instead [[Vitellia (daughter of emperor Vitellius)|Vitellia Galeria Fundania]], daughter of emperor [[Vitellius]].<ref>[http://www.strachan.dk/family/rupilius.htm Rupilius]. Strachan stemma.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale: mythe et réalité |last=Settipani |first=Christian |publisher=Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre College, University of Oxford |year=2000 |isbn=9781900934022 |pages=278 |language=It |edition=illustrated |series=Prosopographica et genealogica |volume=2}}</ref>
 
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