Lucius Sergius Fidenas (consular tribune 397 BC)

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Lucius Sergius Fidenas was a Roman politician in the early 4th century BC. BC, he belonged to the gens Sergia and was consular tribune in 397 BC. Chr.

According to filiation in the Fasti Capitolini , he was the son of Manius Sergius Fidenas , who lived in 404 and 402 BC. Had been consular tribune.

According to tradition, the consular tribunes of this year waged wars against the Volsker , Aequer , Vejenter , Falisker and Capenaten and had to fend off an invasion by the city of Tarquinii .

Even before the end of the term of office, according to Titus Livius , the entire college of consular tribunes had to resign because errors had occurred in the choice of tribunes. This resignation is not mentioned in the Fasti Capitolini.

In 394 BC Lucius Sergius Fidenas was next to Lucius Valerius Potitus and Aulus Manlius Vulso Capitolinus envoy of Rome to deliver the offerings on the occasion of the victory over Veji to the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita V, 16.1; Diodor , Bibliothéke historiké XIV, 85.1.
  2. ↑ Fasti Capitolini: “L. Sergius M 'f. L. n. [---] ".
  3. ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita V, 16: 2-8.
  4. ^ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita V, 17.2-4.
  5. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic . Volume 1: 509 BC-100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Number 15, Volume 1). Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland / Ohio 1951, Unchanged reprint 1968, p. 86 f.
  6. ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita V, 28: 1-5; Diodor, Bibliothéke historiké XIV, 93,2-5; Livius here obviously follows a much older source, compare Friedrich Münzer : Sergius 26. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, column 1712.

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SURNAME Sergius Fidenas, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fidenas, Lucius Sergius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consular tribune 397 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.