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unusual facts about Labienus



45 BC

Labienus dies in battle, Pompey the younger is executed, but Sextus Pompey escapes to take command of the remnants of the Pompeian fleet.

Battle of Agendicum

After Julius Caesar captured Avaricum, he split his forces in half, and sent 4 legions under the command of Labienus north into the lands of the Senones and Parisii.

Labienus was able to flank the Gauls by crossing the river Seine near the town of Melodunum, (modern-day Melun).

After being halted, Labienus received more bad news in the fact that a new army made up of tribes of the Bellovaci were coming to attack him from the north.

Grenelle

In 52 BCE, Garanella plain was the site of the Battle of Lutetia between the troops of the Gaulish chief Camulogène and the Roman legion under General Labienus.

Herodian kingdom

After Julius Caesar was murdered in 44 BCE, Quintus Labienus, a Roman republican general and ambassador to the Parthians, sided with Brutus and Cassius in the Liberators' civil war; after their defeat Labienus joined the Parthians and assisted them in invading Roman territories in 40 BCE.

Numidian cavalry

At the same time they were generally unable to stand their ground against heavier types of cavalry, in one incident during the aforementioned African invasion thirty of Caesar's Gallic horsemen drove off a much larger force of Moorish cavalry, while in another a squadron of Caesar's Iberian horsemen routed a large body of Labienus's Numidians, while his Gallic and Germanic horsemen stood their ground.

Quintus Labienus

After Brutus and Cassius fled east to Macedonia and were defeated there in the Battle of Philippi by Caesar's imperialist successors (the Second Triumvirate, particularly Mark Antony and Caesar's heir Octavian, the future emperor Augustus), Labienus joined the Parthians.


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