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783 SERRANUS. SERRANUS.
catrios, is mentioned by Cicero as alive at the time son of No. 2, curule aedile B. C. 193, with L. Scril
of the Social War, B. c. 90. (Cic. pro Cluent. 7.) bonins Libo. Thle were the first aediles who
5. L. SERGIUS, a scriba of Cicero, when he was exhibited the Megalesia as ludi scenici; and it was
quaestor in Sicily, B. C. 75. (Cic. Verr. iii. 78.) in their aedileship that the senators had seats
6. L. SERGIUS, the armiger of Catiline, and assigned them in the theatre, distinct from the rest
subsequently one of Clodius's mob. (Cic. pro Dom. of the people. He did not obtain the praetorship
5, 33.) till B. C. 185. (Liv. xxxiv. 54; Val. Max. ii. 4.
7. SERGIUS, proscribed by the triumvirs in B. c. ~ 3; Ascon. in' Tog. Cand. p. 69, ed. Orelli; Liv.
43, lay concealed in the house of Antony, till the xxxix. 23.)
latter obtained his pardon. (Appian, B. C. iv. 45.) 4. A. ATILIJS SRRRANUS, probably the second
SEIRGIUS (E'pyTos), of Zeugma, a town in son of No. 2, was praetor B. U. 192, and obtained,
Syria, the son of Aphthonius, was, according as his province, Macedonia and the command of
to Suidas (s. v.), praefectus praetorio, a consu- the fleet, under the pretext of carrying on hoslaris and a patrician. He wrote an epitaphium on tilities against the Lacedaemonian tyrant Nabis,
his brother Sabinus, and a work against Aelius but in reality that he might be ready to act in the
Aristcides. threatening war against Antiochus the Great, king
SE'RGIUS, a grammarian of uncertain date, but of Syria. In the following year he retained the
later than the fourth century, the author of two command of the fleet till the arrival of his successor,
tracts; the first entitled In primanz Donati Edi- C. Livius Salinator; and as the war had been altionem Commentarium [see DONATUS]; the second, ready declared against Antiochus, he captured in
In secundam Donati Editionem Commentaria, which the Aegean a large fleet of transports carrying prowere first published in the collection of minor visions to the king, and brought the ships into tile
grammarians, printed at Milan, fol. 1504, and Peiraeeus. He was praetor a second time in B. c.
which will both be found in the "Grammaticae 173, and obtained the jurisdictio urbana. He was
Latinae auctores antiqui" of Putschius (4to. Han- ordered in the same year to renew with Antiochus
nov. 1605, pp. 1816-1838). The former appears Epiphanes the treaty which had been concluded
under its best form in the "Analecta Grammatica" with his father. In B. c. ]71 he was sent,
of Endlicher, who has also printed from a Bobbio with Q. Marcius Philippus and others, as amMS., now at Vienna, a fragment of Sergius, de bassador into Greece, to counteract the designs
A rte Grammatica. By some scholars this Sergius and influence of Perseus. An account of this
is supposed to be the samne person with Servius embassy, and of the way in which he and PhiMaurus Honoratus, the celebrated commentator on lippus deceived the Macedonian monarch, is given
Virgil; but there is still extant (pp. 1779-1799, in the life of Philippus [Vol. III. p. 286, a.].
ed. Putsch.) a commentary by Servius upon the In the following year, B.c. 170, he was consul
second edition of Donatus altogether different from with A. Hostilius Mancinus, and obtained Italy as
that which bears the name of Sergius. [W. R.] his province, while his colleague had the conduct of
SERMO, M. MA'RCIUS, tribune of the plebs the war against Perseus. (Liv. xxxv. 10, 20, 22,
B. C. 172, in conjunction with his colleague Q. xxxvi. 20; Appian, Syr. 22; Liv. xli. 28, xlii. 1,
Marcius Scylla, compelled the consuls of that year 6, 37, 38, 44, 47; Polyb. xxvii. 2; Liv. xliii. 9.)
to go into their provinces, and also proposed the 5. M. ATILIUS SERRANUS, probably the third
rogatio Marcia de Liguribus. (Liv. xlii. 21.) son of No. 2, was one of the triumvirs appointed
SERRAINUS, was originally an agnomen of in B. c. 190, for settling new colonists at Placentia
C. Atilius Regulus, consul B. C. 257, but afterwards and Cremona. He is probably the same as the M.
became the name of a distinct family of the Atilia Atilius who was praetor in B. C. 174, and obtained
gens. The origin of the name is uncertain. Most the province of Sardinia. (Liv. xxxvii. 46, xli. 21.)
of the ancient writers derive it from serere, and 6. M. ATILIUS SERRANUS, praetor B. C. 152,
relate that Regulus received the surname of Serra- in Further Spain, defeated the Lusitani, and took
nus, because he was engaged in sowing when the their principal city, Oxthracae. (Appian, Hisp.
news was brought him of his elevation to the con- 58.)
sulship (" Serentem invenerunt dati honores Ser- 7. SEX. ATILIUS SERRANUS, consul B. C. 136,
ranum, unde cognomen," Plin. Hf. IV. xviii. 3. s. 4; with P. Furius Philus. (Obsequ. 84; Cic. de Off
"te sulco, Serrane, serentem, Virg. Aen. vi. 845; iii. 30, ad Att. xii. 5.)
Cic. pro Sex. Rose. 18; Val. Max. iv. 4. ~ 5.) It 8. C. ATILIUS SERRANUS, consul B. C. 106 with
appears, however, from coins, that Saranus is the Q. Servilius Caepio, the year in which Cicero and
proper fornm of the name, and Perizonius (Animadv. Pompey were born. Although a " stultissimus
Hist. c. 1) thinks that it is derived from Saranum, homo," according to Cicero, he was elected in prea town of Umbria. ference to Q. Catulus (Obsequ. 101; Gell. xv. 28;
1. C. ATILIUS REGULUS SERRANUS, consul Vell. Pat. ii. 53; Cic. pro Plane. 5). He was one
B.C. 257. [REGULUS, No. 4.] of the senators who took up arms against Satur2. C. ATILIUS SERRANUS, probably son of the ninus in B. C. 100. (Cic. pro C. Rabir. 7.)
preceding, was praetor B.c. 218, the first year of 9. ATILIUS SERRANUS, one of the distinguished
the second Punic War, and was sent into northern men slain by order of Marius and Cinna, when
Italy, to strengthen the army of the other praetor, they entered Rome at the close of B. C. 87. (ApL. Manlius, who was attacked by the Boii. At a pian, B. C. i. 72.)
lalter period of the year, he and his colleague re- 10. Sax. ATILTUS SERRANUS GAVIANUS, ori.
signed their command to the consul P. Scipio, who ginally belonged to the Gavia gens, but was
returned from the Rhone to oppose Hannibal in adopted by one of the Atilii. He was quaestor in
Italy. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the B. C. 63 in the consulship of Cicero, who treated
consulship for B. C. 216. (Liv. xxi. 26, 39, 62; him with distinguished favour; but in his triAppian, Annib. 5; Polyb. iii. 40; Liv. xxii. 35.) bunate of the plebs, B. C. 57, he notwithstanding
3. C. ATILIUS SERRANUS, probably the eldest allowed himself to be purchased by Cicero's ene