Publius Servilius Priscus Structus

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Publius Servilius Priscus Structus was the first consul from the gens Servilia in the early Roman Republic . He officiated in 495 BC. With Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis as a colleague. His Cognomina (nicknames) are unanimously, but partly also incomplete.

The year in office of Servilius and Claudius fell during a troubled time in which the secessio plebis was preparing. The historian Livius lets Claudius appear as a conservative representative of the upper class, while Servilius portrays him as a mediator. However, this assessment is to be regarded as an invention, as no contemporary records exist about the two consuls. The historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus reports of a triumphal procession of Servilius after a victory over the Volscians , which is also fictional.

Publius Servilius Priscus Structus is considered to be the father of the future consul Spurius Servilius Priscus and the grandfather of the later consul Publius Servilius Priscus .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprint 1968, p. 13 (Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1)
  2. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus VI 30, 2-3
  3. ↑ Servilius 76. In: Pauly's Realencyclopadie der classischen antiquity . Second row. Fourth half volume. Selinuntia - Sila . Stuttgart: JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1923, Sp. 1805
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SURNAME Servilius Priscus Structus, Publius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Priscus Structus, Publius Servilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 495 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.