Libo Rupilius Frugi

Who is Libo Rupilius Frugi?

Libo Rupilius Frugi, whose full name was Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus, was a Roman suffect consul and an ancestor to Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.

He was one of the sons and among the children born to Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi who had been consul in 64 from his wife Sulpicia Praetextata daughter of the suffect consul in 46, Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Peticus and a grandson of Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi who had been consul in 27 and noblewoman Scribonia. His brother Gaius Calpurnius Piso Crassus Frugi Licinianus, had been a consul in 87. The father of Frugi, was executed by the Roman emperor Nero between 66 and 68, because of information brought against him by Marcus Aquilius Regulus. After the death of his father, his mother took him with his siblings, to a Roman Senate meeting in 70 early in the reign of Roman emperor Vespasian, seeking vengeance for his father’s death. Regulus with his associated political circle was prosecuted by the Roman Senate.

According to Augustan History, Frugi was of consular rank and refers to him as a former consul. Frugi served as a suffect consul in 88. Pliny the Younger reports him speaking aggressively in the Roman Senate in 101.