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

3. L.ScriboniusLibo, curule aedile, B. C. 193, with C. Atilius Serranus. They were the first aediles who exhibited the Megalesia as ludi scenici; and it was also in their aedileship that the senators had seats assigned them in the theatre distinct from the rest of the people. In B. C. 192, Libo was consul, and obtained the peregrina jurisdictio, and in B. C. 185 he was appointed one of the triumviri to conduct colonists to Sipontum and Buxentum. (Liv. 34.54; Ascon. in Cic. Cornel. p. 69, ed. Orelli; Liv. 35.10, 20, 39.23.)