Quintus Servilius Priscus

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Quintus Servilius Priscus was a member of the Roman patrician dynasty of the Servilians and served during the early republic in 468 and 466 BC. As consul .

Life

The two ancient historians Titus Livius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus report on Quintus Servilius Priscus . While Livius only cites the prenomen and noun of Servilius, but not an epithet, Servilius' cognomen Priscus is attested in Dionysius and several late antique lists of consuls. Another cognomen added to Servilius, Structus , is only mentioned by the Greco-Sicilian historian Diodorus .

Nothing is known about the early cursus honorum of Servilius. For the first time he was born 468 BC. Consul, where he had Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus as an official. During his tenure he is said to have waged war against the Sabines . Two years later, 466 BC. BC, he was again transferred to the highest state office; this time his fellow consul was Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis . In his second consulate, Roman annals ascribe to him directing military operations against the Aequer .

465 BC According to Livius, Servilius represented the two consuls of that time, Quintus Fabius Vibulanus and Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, who were going to war against the Aequer in Rome , so he was praefectus urbi . Livy 's statement that Servilius 459 BC was very doubtful. BC together with Aulus Cornelius was quaestor .

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 9, 57, 1 and 9, 60, 1.
  2. ↑ Diodor, Bibliothéke historiké 11, 71, 1.
  3. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 2, 64, 2; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 9, 57, 1; Diodor, Bibliothéke historiké 11, 71, 1; among others
  4. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 2, 64, 4; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiqutitates Romanae 9, 57, 1.
  5. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 3, 2, 1; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiqutitates Romanae 9, 60, 1; Diodor, Bibliothéke historiké 11, 75, 1; among others
  6. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 3, 2, 1; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiqutitates Romanae 9, 60, 7.
  7. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 3, 3, 6.
  8. ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 3, 24, 3–9.
personal data
SURNAME Servilius Priscus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Priscus, Quintus Servilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 468 BC BC and 466 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 466 BC Chr.