Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SERV0226 C. Servilius (32) Ahala

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 439, exiled (Kelly 2006) Expand

    Exile? Kelly pp. 239-40.

  • 439, restored (Kelly 2006) Expand

    Kelly pp. 239-40.

Relationships

related to
M. Iunius (53) M. f. Brutus = Q. Servilius Caepio Brutus (pr. 44) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 222 (Drusus)

Career

  • Magister Equitum 439 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • According to the dominant tradition, he slew Sp. Maelius for resisting arrest when summoned by the Dictator Cincinnatus (Cic. Sen. 56; Liv. 4.13.14-14.7, 16.5, and 21.3-4; Dion. Hal. 12.2.2-8; Val. Max. 5.3.2g; Quintil. Inst. Or. 5.13.24; Flor. 1.17.26.7; Auct. Vir. Ill. 17.5; Ampel. 27.2; Augustin. CD 3.17; Zon. 7.20; Degrassi 95, 370f.). Dion. Hal. preserves another tradition that he was a private citizen when he played the tyrranicide (12.4.2-5; cf. Cincius, fr. 6, and Piso fr. 24, Peter; Plut. Brut. 1.3). Ahala is also mentioned in Cic. Cat. 1.3; Dom. 86; Mil. 8; Sest. 143; Phil. 2.26f.; Or. 153; Att. 2.24.3; 13.40.1; Rep. 1.6; 2.49; cf. Grueber, CRRBM 1.480; Cesano, Stud. Num. 1 (1942) 138f.; Val. Max. 6.3.1. (Broughton MRR I)

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