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5th-century BC Roman senator, consul and general
Quintus Servilius Priscus
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Nationality
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Years active
| fl.
c. 468?459 BC
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Office
| Consul
(468, 466 BC)
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Quintus Servilius Priscus
[1]
(
fl.
c. 468?459 BC) was a
Roman
statesman
who served as
Consul
in 468 BC and 466 BC.
Career
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In 468 BC, he became consul alongside
Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus
. He was elected by the
patricians
only, as
plebeians
refused to vote. During the year, he was given command of Roman forced
against the Sabines
who have ravaged
Latium
and the Roman lands. He in turn ravaged the Sabine territory, and recovered a greater amount of booty than the Sabines had. There was no major engagement with the Sabines, although the war with them which had been ongoing since 470 BC seems to have abated at this time.
In 466 BC, he became consul for the second time with
Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis
. He led a Roman army into the
Aequian
territory to continue a
war
against them. However an illness through the Roman camp prevented any military engagement.
[2]
In 465 BC Servilius was appointed
Praefectus urbi
during a
justitium
when both consuls were to be absent from Rome dealing with the ongoing military threat from the
Aequi
.
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He was elected
quaestor
in 459 BC and attempted to prosecute the tribune of the plebs,
Marcus Volscius Fictor
, for giving false witness against
Caeso Quinctius
. His colleague in the quaestorship was the otherwise unknown Aulus Cornelius. The trial against Volscius was continued by the quaestors of the following year.
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See also
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The surname 'Structus', borne by some members of his family, is only attested once, by
Diodorus Siculus
, and he probably did not have it. Primary reports on names are often unreliable and conflicting. Broughton I, pp. 32, 33.
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Livy, 3.2
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Livy, 3.3
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Livy. iii, 24.3-7, 29.6
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Broughton
, vol i, pp. 38-40
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