“ LABEO, MARCUS ANTISTIUS (c. 50 B.C.–A.D. 18) , Roman jurist, was the son of Pacuvius Antistius Labeo, a jurist who caused himself to be slain after the defeat of his party at Philippi. A member of the plebeian nobility, and in easy circumstances, the younger Labeo early entered public life, and soon rose to the praetorship ”

“ His training in the science had been derived principally from Trebatius Testa. To his knowledge of the law he added a wide general culture, devoting his attention specially to dialectics, philology (grammatica) , and antiquities, as valuable aids in the exposition, expansion, and application of legal doctrine (Gell. xiii. 10) . ”