LABEONE, MARCO ANTISTIO. - Roman jurist, born perhaps in 43 B.C., died between A.D. 10 and 22.
The son of a jurist who had been a follower of Pompeo and Bruto, he held republican views. He pursued a political career as far as the praetorship, but seems to have refused the consulship, withdrawing into private life and spending six months of the year in the city giving legal opinions and teaching, and the other six in the country composing his scholarly works. According to the account of Pomponio, reported in D. 1, 2, 2, 47, L. was the founder of one of the two schools into which Roman jurists were divided in the first century of the principate, namely that which, after Proculo, was to take the name of the Proculian school.
Of great genius and productivity, he left, according to tradition, 400 books. At least 15 books de iure pontificio, some epistulae, 15 books of responsa, a work, probably similar to the preceding one, entitled Pithana (Πιθανά), and finally commentaries on the Twelve Tables, in two books, on the edict of the urban praetor, and on the edict of the peregrine praetor (in at least 30 books) are known. A posthumous work of his in 40 books, the Posteriores, a collection of legal opinions arranged according to the system of the ius civile, enjoyed great renown and circulation.