Sergeant

The Sergians are an ancient Roman patrician family , the gens Sergia , whose gentile name is Sergius . The Sergians provided numerous Roman consuls and were in the Fasti Capitolini from the middle of the 5th century BC. Chr. Until the second half of the 4th century BC. . Chr represented frequently.

Probably the Sergi are Etruscan origin and closer to the Serviliern , gens Servilia been connected and possibly related. Robert Werner assumes that they were two branches of a single family. The reason for these assumptions is that the cognomen Fidenas appears in both gentes . RM Ogilvie's assumption that the cognomen “Fidenas” leads to the conclusion that the gens comes from the city of Fidenae is purely speculative. The gentilian tribe Sergia is named after the Sergians .

The earliest representative of the gens Sergia, a Marcus Sergius Esquilinus , appears for the year 450 BC. Chr. In the Fasti Capitolini and other ancient sources on. The cognomen Esquilinus is not otherwise known in the family, the other early representatives of the gens Sergia carried the cognomen Fidenas . The following sergians reached the office of consul or consular tribune :

• Lucius Sergius Fidenas : Consul 437 and 429 BC Chr., Consular tribune 433, 424 and 418 BC Chr.
• Manius Sergius Fidenas : Consular tribune 404 and 402 BC Chr.
• Lucius Sergius Fidenas : Consular Tribune 397 BC Chr.
• Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas : consular tribune 387, 385 and 380 BC Chr.

After the sex in the second half of the 4th century BC. B.C. had lost political influence, shortly after the Second Punic War , members of the gens once again reached the praetur .

• Gaius Sergius Plautus : praetor urbanus 200 BC Chr.
• Marcus Sergius Silus : praetor urbanus 197 BC Chr.

Around 110 BC Chr. Reached a Manlius Sergius for praetorship and was proconsul in the province ulterior Hispania .

The most famous sergian was Lucius Sergius Catilina (praetor 68 BC ), the opponent Marcus Tullius Cicero in the Catiline conspiracy .

The fact that Virgil ascribes a Trojan ancestry to them through their legendary ancestor Sergestus speaks for the age and reputation of the Sergians . A type of olive, the Sergia or Sergiana , was named after the Sergians in Rome .

literature

• Friedrich Münzer among others: Sergius . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Sp. 1688-1722.

Remarks

1. ^ Robert Werner: The beginning of the Roman republic. Historical-chronological studies of the early days of the libera res publica . Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1963, p. 268.
2. ^ Friedrich Münzer and others: Sergius . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Sp. 1688-1722.
3. ^ Robert M. Ogilvie: Early Rome And The Etruscans . 2nd edition, Williams Collins Sons & Co, Glasgow 1979, p. 142 f.
4. ↑ Andreas Alföldi : Early Rome and the Latiner . Translated from English by Frank Kolb. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977, p. 278.
5. ↑ Fasti Capitolini; Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita III, 35.11; Diodor , Bibliotheca historica XII, 24.1 with the praenomen Lucius
6. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Sergius 24 to Sergius 28. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Col. 1711-1713.
7. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 2: 99-31 BC (= Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Number XV, Volume 2). Press of the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (Ohio) 1952, unmodified reprint 1968, p. 465.
8. ^ Matthias Gelzer : Sergius 23. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Col. 1693-1711.
9. ^ Virgil, Aeneis V, 121 ff.
10. ↑ Cato , De agri cultura 6.1.