Name of an old patrician family. The tribus Sergia was named after it. The family is attested to have attained consulship in the 5th cent. BC (S. [I 5]) but did not achieve lasting importance in the historical period. The attempt of its best-known member, L.S. Catilina, to attain the consulship once more failed with the Catilinarian Conspiracy.
(?) According to Plutarch (Sulla 32,3; Cicero 10,3), the brother of L.S. Catilina, killed by him in…
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Bartels, Jens (Bonn),
Müller, Christian (Bochum),
Schmitt, Tassilo (Bielefeld),
Eck, Werner (Cologne),
Tinnefeld, Franz (Munich),
Brock, Sebastian P. (Oxford) and
Berger, Albrecht (Berlin),
“Sergius”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
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