a friend and legatus of L. Munatius Plancus, and the bearer of confidential letters from him while praefect of Transalpine Gaul, in B. C. 44, to Cicero at Rome. (Cic. Fam. 10.18, 21.) From Livy (5.35, 33.37) Laevus appears to have been originally a Ligurian name.
[W.B.D]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890