Gaius Servilius Ahala

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Gaius Servilius Ahala was a Roman politician and military man in the late 5th century BC. Chr.

Life

Gaius Servilius Ahala came from the ancient Patrician Roman family of the Servilians , who, according to legend, had immigrated to Rome from Alba Longa and who, with members of the branch with the cognomen Ahala, played an important role in Rome, especially in the 5th and 4th centuries BC . He was the son of a Publius and grandson of a Quintus. He must have been a respected troop leader, because he was elected three times to the consular tribune ( tribunus militum consularis potentate ). The first time he held the office in the year 408 BC. Chr .; for the year 407 he was re-elected. For the third time he was consular tribune in 402. The filiation and the offices are fully occupied by the Fasti Capitolini and are also mentioned in Titus Livius . These two sources also mention that he installed a dictator in the first tribunate on the orders of the Senate, but against the will of his fellow tribunes , who then appointed him Magister equitum . According to Livy, in 406 he was legate in the war against the Volscians .

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  • Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita , Books IV and V.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Münzer and others: Servilius. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Sp. 1759-1822.
  2. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Servilius 33. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Sp. 1771 f.
  3. ^ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita IV, 56.2; IV, 57.2.12; IV, 59.5; V, 8.1 and V, 9.5.
  4. ↑ Fasti Capitolini.
  5. ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita IV, 56 f.
  6. ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita IV, 59.5.
personal data
SURNAME Servilius Ahala, Gaius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and military
DATE OF BIRTH before 408 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 402 BC Chr.