Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (suffect consul)
Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus came from a patrician family and was a Roman politician and senator . He was a son of the consul of the same name of the year 51, Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus . The high point of his career was a suffect consulate , which can no longer be precisely dated, possibly before the year 82. According to Suetonius , he was first banished to an island by Emperor Domitian and then killed there for attempted overthrow (molitor rerum novarum) . His son of the same name, Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus , also became consul in 110 during the reign of Trajan .
literature
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR )² C 1445.
Remarks
- ↑ Little Pauly names 93 as the year of the suffect consulate and the year of death.
- ^ Suetonius, Domitian 10, 2 .
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| SURNAME | Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, Servius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, Servius Cornelius; Salvidienus Orfitus, Servius Cornelius Scipio; Orfitus, Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman suffect consul during the reign of Domitian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 97 |