Lăbeo Antistius

, a celebrated lawyer in the age of August us, whose views he opposed, and whose offers of the consulship he refused. His works are lost. He was wont to enjoy the company and conversation of the learned for six months, and the rest of the year was spent in writing and composing. His father, of the same name, was one of Cæsar’s murderers. He killed himself at the battle of Philippi. Horace , bk. 1 , satire 3, li. 82 , has unjustly taxed him with insanity because, no doubt, he inveighed against his patrons. Appian , The Civil Wars , bk. 4 .— Suet on i us , August us , ch. 45 .――A tribune of the people at Rome, who condemned the censor Me tell us to be thrown down from the Tarpeian rock, because he had expelled him from the senate. This rigorous sentence was stopped by the interference of another of the tribunes.――Quintus Fabius, a Roman consul, A.U.C. 571, who obtained a naval victory over the fleet of the Cretans. He a isted Terence in composing his comedies, according to some.――Actius, an obscure poet who recommended himself to the favour of Nero by an incorrect translation of Homer into Latin. The work is lost, and only this curious line is preserved by an old scholiast, Persius , bk. 1 , li. 4 , Crudum manducus Priamum, Priamique Pisinnos .