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Laevus, Cispius

a friend and legatus of L. Munatius Plancus, and the bearer of confidential letters from him while praefect of Transalpine Gaul, in B. C. 44, to Cicero at Rome. (Cic. Fam. 10.18, 21.) From Livy (5.35, 33.37) Laevus appears to have been originally a Ligurian name.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.