Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas

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Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas Coxo was a politician and general in the early days of the Roman Republic .

He came from the patrician family of the Sergians , who played an important role in Rome in the 5th and 4th centuries and which then flourished, albeit largely without influence, until the 1st century BC. A fragment of the Fasti Capitolini found in 1900 gives his full name Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas Coxo. With the ancient historian Titus Livius he appears at his third consular tribunate with the praenomen Gaius.

He must have been a good general, because during the heavy struggles of Rome against the Gauls , Volscians and other neighbors for supremacy in Latium , he was made a "consular tribune" three times ( tribunus militaris consulis potestate , dt. " Military tribune with consular power ") elected, an office that only existed in place of the consuls when there was great external threat to the state . For the first time it was recorded in 387 BC. Elected consular tribune for the second time for the year 385 BC And finally for the third time for the year 380 BC. Chr.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Münzer and others: Sergius. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Sp. 1688-1722.
  2. ^ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita VI, 27.
  3. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Sergius 28. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Sp. 1712 f.
personal data
SURNAME Sergius Fidenas, Gnaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sergius Fidenas Coxo, Cnaeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and general
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.