Sergii ( lat. Sergii ) - an ancient Roman patrician clan , leading, according to legend, its pedigree from the Trojans . They are called the same as their ancestors: " Sergestusque, domus tenet a quo Sergia nomen " [1] .
The first representative of the Sergiev clan, who achieved the highest magistracy in the Roman Republic, was the military stands with consular power Lucius Sergius Fidenat (in 437 BC).
One of the most famous representatives of this glorious patrician family was Mark Sergius Sil , great-great-grandfather of Catilina , one of the desperate fighters of the 2nd Punic War . Pliny says that Sergius lost his right hand in the 2nd Punic War, and during the two wars he received 23 wounds and lost the ability to wield both arms and legs; fled from captivity twice from Hannibal ; fought four times, using only his left hand; two horses fell beneath him; with the help of the iron right arm made for him, he fought during the siege of Cremona, defended Placenius and took 12 camps in Gaul [2] .
At different times, representatives of this genus were:
- Guy Sergius Fidenath Coxon - three-time military stands of Ancient Rome with consular powers (in 387, 385 and 380 BC);
- Mark Sergius - the military stands of the soldiers sent by Scipio to Regius and soon killed by Pleminius in 205 BC. e. [3] ;
- Lucius Sergius - one of the three ambassadors sent by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africa to Carthage in 203 BC. e. [4] ;
- Gaius Sergius Plavt - urban praetor ( Latin praetor urbanus ) in 200 BC. e. His rule was extended to the next year, during which he managed to provide veterans with land in Spain , Sicily and Sardinia [5] ;
- Mark Sergius Sil - praetor in 197 BC e [2] [6] [7] [8] .;
- Mark Sergius Sil - legate in Macedonia in 168 BC. e [9] [10] .;
- Mark Sergius Sil - a member of the College of Coin Triumviras in 116-115 BC. e [11] [12] ., which occupied no later than 94 years BC. e. questura [13] [14] [15] ;
- Guy Sergius Sil Orata [16] [17] is a trader and specialist in the field of hydraulics . The first of the Romans began to engage in the cultivation and sale of oysters (c. 95 BC);
- Quintus Sergius is a senator , mentioned by Cicero as living during the times of the Allied war [18] ;
- Lucius Sergius - squire and freedman of Lucius Sergius Catilina, then the clerk of Cicero during his duties as a quaestor in Sicily in 75 BC. e. Subsequently - one of the mercenaries of Publius Claudius Pulhra [19] [20] ;
- (Sergius) Plavt - member of the judicial board (possibly from the senatorial class [21] ), in May 61 BC. e. examining the case of sacrilege during the festival of the Good Goddess [22] [23] ;
- Sergius - was in disgrace among the triumvirs in 43 BC. e., hiding in the house of Anthony until he was pardoned [24] ;
- (Quint or Lucius) Sergius Pavel - Proconsul of Cyprus ( province of Asia ) in the 40s. I century., Converted to Christianity by the apostle Paul ;
- Lucius Sergius Pavel - ordinary consul of the Roman Empire in 168, at the same time held the post of prefect of the city ​​of Rome. The following year he was appointed proconsul and sent to Asia.
Notes
- ↑ Publius Virgil Maron . Aeneid , V, 121;
- ↑ 1 2 Pliny the Elder . Natural History , VII, 29;
- ↑ Titus Livy . History of Rome from the founding of the City , XXIX, 6 (9);
- ↑ Livy . History from the founding of the city, XXX, 25;
- ↑ Livy . History from the founding of the city, xxxi, 4 (6); Xxxii, 1;
- ↑ Münzer F. Sergius 40 // Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). - 1942. - Bd. II A, 2. - Kol. 1719-1720;
- ↑ Broughton R. The Magistrates of The Roman Republic. - NY, 1951. - Vol. I - P. 333;
- ↑ Brennan T. The Praetorship in The Roman Republic. - NY & Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2000. - Vol. II: 122 to 49 BC. - P. 729;
- ↑ Münzer F. Sergius 41 // RE. - 1942. - Bd. II A, 2. - Sp. 1720;
- ↑ Broughton R. The Magistrates of The Roman Republic. - NY, 1951. - Vol. I - P. 431;
- ↑ Crawford M. The Roman Republican Coinage. - London : Cambridge University Press , 1974. - Vol. I - Ref. 286;
- ↑ Alexander M. Trials in The Late Roman Republic: 149 to 50 BC. - University of Toronto Press , 1990. - No. 48;
- ↑ Mark Tullius Cicero . About the Speaker , II, 70 (285);
- ↑ Münzer F. Sergius 42 // RE. - 1942. - Bd. II A, 2. - Sp. 1720;
- ↑ Broughton R. The Magistrates of The Roman Republic. - NY, 1952. - Vol. II - P. 13;
- ↑ Mark Tullius Cicero . On the limits of good and evil, II, 22 (70);
- ↑ Alexander M. Trials in The Late Roman Republic: 149 to 50 BC. - University of Toronto Press , 1990. - No. 362, 365;
- ↑ Cicero . In defense of Clluence, 7;
- ↑ Cicero . Against Verres , III (78);
- ↑ Cicero . About your home, 5 (13);
- ↑ Alexander M. Trials in The Late Roman Republic: 149 to 50 BC. - University of Toronto Press , 1990. - No. 236;
- ↑ Cicero . To Attica , XXII [I, 16], (6);
- ↑ Münzer F. Plautus 2 // RE. - 1942. - Bd. XXI, 1. - Sp. 53;
- ↑ Appian of Alexandria . Roman history. Civil Wars, IV, 45.