Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SERV1552 Cn. Servilius (46) Cn. f. Cn. n. Caepio

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 184?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R49.

Relationships

son of
? Cn. Servilius (45) Cn. f. Cn. n. Caepio (cos. 169) (Badian 1990)
brother of
? Q. Fabius (115) Q. f. Q. n. Maximus Servilianus (cos. 142) (Zmeskal 2009)
Q. Servilius (48) Cn. f. Cn. n. Caepio (cos. 140) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 97., Cic. Font. 23, Val. Max. VIII 5.1

father of
? Cn. Servilius (47) Caepio (q.? 105) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Praetor before 143 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The latest date possible for their praetorships under the Lex Villia. On Pompeius, see D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 738 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 141 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Att. 12.5b; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 125, 468f. (C[n. - - - -], Q. Pompeius A. f. [- - - -]); Liv. Oxy. Per. 53; Chr. 354 (Ceplo et Nepote); Eutrop. 4.16 and 17; Cassiod.; on Servilius, Didasc. Ter. Phorm.; Val. Max. 8.5.1; and on Pompeius, Cic. Verr. 2.5.181; Mur. 16; Brut. 96; Lael. 77; Liv. Per. 54; Plut. Apophth. Scip. Min. 8; Val. Max. 9.3.7; Vell. 2.1.4. Servilius was placed in charge of the investigation of Hostilius Tubulus (see 142, Praetors) by the Senate (Cic. Fin. 2.54). Pompeius in Hither Spain was repulsed at Numantia, but subdued the Termestini (Liv. Oxy. Per. 54, and Per. 54; App. Ib. 76-78; Dio fr. 77; Oros. 5.4.13; see Schulten, Gesch. Numantia 69-72; below, 140, Promagistrates). On Pompeius, see D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 141. In MRR 1.477, refer also to Vell. 2.21.5. On his special command in 133 to suppress a slave rising at Sinuessa and Minturnae, see Oros. 5.9.4, and above, on Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (94). Cos. 143. See Badian, Studies 37. Censor 125. Because of the long delay between his consulship and his censorship, L. Hayne suggests that he was a candidate in 131, but was defeated by Pompeius (12) (Historia 27, 1978, 234-235). Badian suggests that the consul Scipio who pulled down L. Cassius' theater (App. BC 1.28) was not the consul of 106 (49) but the censor of 125 with L. Cassius Longinus Ravilla (72) (CR 9, 1959, 274). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Promagistrate? 133 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 141. In MRR 1.477, refer also to Vell. 2.21.5. On his special command in 133 to suppress a slave rising at Sinuessa and Minturnae, see Oros. 5.9.4, and above, on Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (94). Cos. 143. See Badian, Studies 37. Censor 125. Because of the long delay between his consulship and his censorship, L. Hayne suggests that he was a candidate in 131, but was defeated by Pompeius (12) (Historia 27, 1978, 234-235). Badian suggests that the consul Scipio who pulled down L. Cassius' theater (App. BC 1.28) was not the consul of 106 (49) but the censor of 125 with L. Cassius Longinus Ravilla (72) (CR 9, 1959, 274). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Censor 125 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Verr. 2.1.143; Vell. 2.10.1; Frontin. Aq. 1.8; see Degrassi 126, 470f. They brought the Aqua Tepula into Rome (Frontin. Aq. 1.8), and punished Caepio's old enemy, the Augur Lepidus Porcina, for renting a house at 6000 HS (Vell. 2.10.1; Val. Max. 8.1, damn. 7, for building too high a villa at Alsium; cf. Cic. Brut. 97). They named P. Cornelius Lentulus Princeps Senatus (Cic. Div. in Caec. 69; Leg. Agr. 2.82; De Or. 1.211; Brut. 108; Phil. 8.14; Cat. 4.13; Val. Max. 5.3.2; Dio 46.20.5; see 131, Censors). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 141. In MRR 1.477, refer also to Vell. 2.21.5. On his special command in 133 to suppress a slave rising at Sinuessa and Minturnae, see Oros. 5.9.4, and above, on Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (94). Cos. 143. See Badian, Studies 37. Censor 125. Because of the long delay between his consulship and his censorship, L. Hayne suggests that he was a candidate in 131, but was defeated by Pompeius (12) (Historia 27, 1978, 234-235). Badian suggests that the consul Scipio who pulled down L. Cassius' theater (App. BC 1.28) was not the consul of 106 (49) but the censor of 125 with L. Cassius Longinus Ravilla (72) (CR 9, 1959, 274). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Censor 124 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 125. They completed the census (Liv. Per. 60) this year, after questioning C. Gracchus for returning from Sardinia before his commander. See Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR I)

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