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LABIENUS
, the name of a See also:Roman See also:family, said (without authority) to belong to the gens Atia
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The most important member was Thus LABIENUS
.
In 63 B.C., at See also:Caesar's instigation, he prosecuted See also:Gaius See also:Rabirius (q.v.) for See also:treason; in the same See also:year, as See also:tribune of the See also:plebs, he carried a See also:plebiscite which in-directly secured for Caesar the dignity of See also:pontifex See also:maximus (Dio See also:Cassius See also:xxxvii
.
37)
.
He served as a legatus throughout Caesar's Gallic See also:campaigns and took Caesar's See also:place whenever he went to See also:Rome
.
His See also:chief exploits in See also:Gaul were the defeat of the Treviri under Indutiomarus in 54, his expedition against Lutetia (See also:Paris) in 52, and his victory over Camulogenus and the See also:Aedui in the same year
.
On the outbreak of the See also:civil See also:war, however, he was one of the first to See also:desert Caesar, probably owing to an overweening sense of his own importance, not adequately recognized by Caesar
.
He was rapturously welcomed on the Pompeian See also:side; but he brought no See also:great strength with him, and his See also:ill See also:fortune under See also:Pompey was as marked as his success had been under Caesar
.
From the defeat at Pharsalus, to which he had contributed by affecting to despise his See also:late comrades, he fled to Corcyra, and thence to See also:Africa
.
There he was able by See also:mere force of See also:numbers to inflict a slight check upon Caesar at Ruspina in 46
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After the defeat at See also:Thapsus he joined the younger Pompey in See also:Spain, and was killed at Munda (See also: |
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