Bibulus

• I L. Publicius Bibulus, a military tribune in the time of the second Punic war, Liv. 22, 53, 2.—
• II M. (in Appian. Civ. 2, 8, Λεύκιος) Calpurnius Bibulus, a contemporary of Caesar, consul with him A.U.C. 695, Suet. Caes. 19; 20; 49; cf. Cic. Vatin. 9, 21; id. Fam. 1, 9, 12; id. Att. 1, 17, 11; 2, 14, 1; 2, 19, 2; 6, 1, 13; 6, 8, 5.—
• III C. Bibulus, an aedile A.U.C. 775, Tac. A. 3, 52.

a cognomen of the plebeian Calpurnia gens.

2. 3. Calpurnii Bibuli, two sons of the preceding, whose praenomens are unknown, were murdered in Egypt, B. C. 50, by the soldiers of Gabinius. Their father bore his loss with fortitude though he deeply felt it; and when the murderers of his children were subsequently delivered up to him by Cleopatra, he sent them back, saying that their punishment was not his duty but that of the senate. Bibulus had probably sent his sons into Egypt to solicit aid against the Parthians; and they may have been murdered by the soldiers of Gabinius, because it was known that their father had been opposed to the expedition of Gabinius, which had been undertaken at the instigation of Pompey. (Caes. Civ. 3.110; V. Max. 4.1.15; comp. Cic. ad Att. vi. 5, ad Fam. 2.17.)

4. L. Calpurnius Bibulus, the youngest son of No. 1, was quite a youth at his father's death (Plut. Brut. 13), after which he lived at Rome with M. Brutus, who married his mother Porcia. He went to Athens in B. C. 45 to prosecute his studies (Cic. Att. 12.32), and appears to have joined his step-father Brutus after the death of Caesar in 44, in consequence of which he was proscribed by the triumvirs. He was present at the battle of Philippi in 42, and shortly after surrendered himself to Antony, who pardoned him and promoted him to the command of his fleet, whence we find on some of the coins of Antony the inscription L. Bibulus Praef. Clas. (Eckhel, v. p. 161, vi. p. 57.) He was frequently employed by Antony in the negotiations between himself and Augustus, and was finally promoted by the former to the government of Syria, where he died shortly before the battle of Actium. (Appian, App. BC 4.38, 104,136, 5.132.) Bibulus wrote the Memorabilia of his step-father, a small work which Plutarch made use of in writing the life of Brutus. (Plut. Brut. 13, 23.)

an aedile mentioned by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 3.52) in the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 22, appears to be the same as the L. Publicius Bibulus, a plebeian aedile, to whom the senate granted a burial-place both for himself and his posterity. (Orelli, Inscr. n. 4698.)

A Roman statesman, one of the aristocratic party. He married Porcia, the daughter of Cato. He was Caesar's colleague in the consulship; but finding it impossible to thwart his designs, retired to his own house and took so little part in the conduct of affairs as to give rise to the epigram which Suetonius (Iul. 20.) has preserved: Non Bibulo quicquam nuper sed Caesare factumst; Nam Bibulo fieri consule nil memini.