Roman Republican Quintus Labienus

Quintus Labienus was a Roman nobleman whose father, Titus, was killed by Caesar in the Battle of Munda in 45 BC. After the assassination of the dictator at the Ides of March 44, the younger Labienus joined the cause of Cassius and Brutus, who sent him as an envoy to the Parthian King Orodes II [57-38 BC] to seek the King's aid against the Caesarians. Having arrived in Ktesiphon, Labienus learned about the disastrous loss of the Republicans in the Battle of Philippi and the subsequent proscriptions of political opponents by the triumvirs. With no place to go, he decided to side with the Parthians and to persuade Orodes to attack the Roman Empire. In early 40 BC, a large Parthian army under the joint command of...

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