A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

SERVILIA GENS. SERVILIUS. 793
Servilia was the favourite mistress of the dictator The cognomens of the Servilii under the empire
Caesar, and seems to have fascinated him more by are given below. A few persons of the name are
her genius than her personal charms. Caesar's love mentioned without any cognomen: they are spoken
for her is mentioned as early as B. C. 63 (Plut. Cat. of under SERVlLIUS. The only surnames found
24, Brut. 5), and continued, apparently unabated, on coins are those of Ahiala, Caepio, Casca, Rullus.
to the time of his death, nearly twenty years after- There are likewise several coins of the Servilia
wards. The scandal-mongers at Rome related gens, which bear no surname upon them: of these
various tales about her, which we may safely dis- two specimens are annexed, but it is quite imposbelieve. Thus she is said to have introduced her sible to determine to whom they refer. (Eckhel,
own daughter, Junia Tertia, to Caesar's embraces, vol. v. p. 308, &c.)
when her own charms were growing faded; and it
was further currently reported that Brutus was
Servilia's son by Caesar. The latter tale, at least,
we can prove to be false, as Caesar was only fifteen
years older than Brutus, the former having been _
born in B. c. 100, and the latter in B. C. 85. Caesar
made Servilia a present of several confiscated
estates after the civil wars. She survived both
her lover and her son. After the battle of Philippi
Antony sent her the ashes of her son. The triumvirs left her unmolested, and Atticus assisted
and consoled her in her troubles. (Suet. Caes.
50; Plut. Cat. 24, Brut. 2, 5, 53; Appian, B. C.
ii. 112, iv. 135; Cic. ad Farn. xii. 7, ad Alt. xiv.
21, xv. 11, 12; Corn. Nep. A.4t. i; Drumann, d
Gesclhiclite Roms, vol. iv. p. 15, &c.) I
3. The sister of No. 2, was the second wife of
L. Lucullus, consul B. C. 74, who married her on
his return from the Mithridatic War, after he had
divorced his first wife, Clodia. She bore Lucullus COINS OF SERVILIA GENS.
a son, but, like her sister, she was faithless to her
husband; and the latter, after putting up with SERVILIA'NUS, an agnomen of Q. Fabius
her conduct for some time from-regard to M. Cato Maximus, consul B. C. 142, because he originally
Uticensis, her half-brother, at length divorced her. belonged to the Servilia Gens. [MAXIa1uvs FAOn the breaking out of the civil war in B. c. 49, BIus, No. 11.1
she accompanied M. Cato, with her child, to Sicily, SERVI'LIUS. 1. C. SERVILIUS, P. F., was one
and from thence to Asia, where Cato left her behind of the triumvirs for settling the colonies of Plain Rhodes, while he went to join Pompey. (Plut. centia and Cremona, and was taken prisoner by
Lucull. 38, Cat. 24, 54; Drumann, Geschici7te the Boii in the first year of the second Punic war,
Roses, vol. iv. p. 174.) B. c. 218. He remained in captivity for fifteen
4. The daughter of Barea Soranus, accused and years, and was eventually released by his own
condemned with her father in A. D. 66. [BAREA.] son, the consul C. Servilius, in B. c. 203. (Liv.
SERVI'LIA GENS, originally patrician, but xxi. 25, xxx. 19.)
subsequently plebeian also. The Servilia gens 2. C. SERVILUIS, C. F. P. N., son of the preceding,
was one of the Alban houses removed to Rome by is first mentioned in B. C. 212, when he was sent
Tullus Hostilius, and enrolled by him among the into Etruria to purchase corn for the use of the
patricians (Liv. i. 30.) It was, consequently, one of Roman garrison in the citadel of Tarentum, which
the minores genies. Like other Roman gentes, the was then besieged by Hannibal. He succeeded
Servilii of course had their own sacra; and they in forcing his way into the harbour, and supplyare said to have worshipped a triens, or copper ing the garrison with the corn. In B. C. 210 he
coin, which is reported to have increased or dimi- was elected pontifex in the place of T. Otacilius
nisned in size at various times, thus indicating Crassus, in B. C. 209 plebeian aedile, and in
the increase or diminution of the honours of the B. c. 208 curule aedile. In the last year, while
gens (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 13. s. 38). The Servilia holding the office of curule aedile, he was appointed
gens was very celebrated during the early ages of magister equitum by the dictator T. Manlius Torthe republic, and the names of few gentes appear quatus. He was praetor B. C. 206, when he ohmore frequently at this period in the consular Fasti. tained Sicily as his province, and consul B. C. 203
It continued to produce men of influence in the with Cn. Servilius Caepio. Livy, in speaking of
state down to the latest times of the republic, and his consulship (xxix. 38, xxx. 1 ), as well as subeven in the imperial period. The first member of sequently, calls him C. Servilius Geminus; but in
the gens who obtained the consulship was P. Ser- the Capitoline Fasti his name is given C. SERvilius Priscus Structus, in B. C. 495, and the last of vILIUS C. F. P. NEPOS. It is therefore probable
the name who appears in the consular Fasti is Q. that his cognomen Geminus is a mistake. C. SerServilius Silanus, in A. D. 189, thus occupying a vilius obtained Etruria as his province, and from
prominent position in the Roman state for nearly thence marched into Cisalpine Gaul, where he reseven hundred years. The Servilii were divided leased his father from captivity, as has been alinto numerous families; of these the names in the ready related. Livy mentions that a rogatio was
republican period are:- AHALA, A XILLA, CAEPIO, proposed to the people to release Servilius from the
CASCA, GEMINUS, GLAv UCIt, GLOBULUS, PRISCUS consequences (ne C. Servilio fraudi esset) of having
(with the agnomen Fidenas), RULLUS, STRUCTUS, acted contrary to the laws in having been tribune
TUCCA, VATIA (with the agnomlen Isacricus). of the plebs and atdile of the plebs, while his