Author(s):
Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum)
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Schmitt, Tassilo (Bielefeld)
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Müller, Christian (Bochum)
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Schmidt, Peter Lebrecht
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Fündling, Jörg (Bonn)
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Et al.
Name of a Roman patrician family, probably originally from Cameria (hence the cognomen
Camerinus); documented in the
fasti from
c. 500 BC. The otherwise rare praenomen Servius appears comparatively frequently and at times is even used in place of the
nomen gentile (Tac. Hist. 2,48; Plut. Galba 3,1). The number of cognomina within the
gens is high, but it has been impossible to identify clear branches. The link between the S. from the 3rd to the 2nd and 1st cent. BC is unclear. In the 2nd cent. BC, the most important branch of the family was that of the Sulpicii Galbae; it finally died out with the emperor Galba [2]. The branch of the Sulpicii Rufi produced the most famous jurist of the Republican Period: Ser. S. Rufus [I 23]. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) I. Republican Period [German version] [I 1] S. (Galus), C.
Cos. 243 BC, the earliest recorded representative of the Sulpicii Gali. Schmitt, Tassilo (Bielefeld) [German version] [I 2] S. Camerinus, C.
Cos. 393 BC (according to the Fasti Capitolini probably as
cos. suff.; InscrIt 13,1,31f.; 100; 386f.); consular tribune in 391;
interrex in 387 (MRR 1,91-93; 99); for possible identity with S. [I 21] see MRR 1,991. Müller, Christian (Bochum) [German version] [I 3] S. Camerinus Cornutus, Ser. According to Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 5,52,1-57,5, S. thwarted a conspiracy to restore the Tarquinians during his term of office as
cos. in 500 BC (MRR 1,10). Because of the close parallels of this report to the conspiracy of Catilina (S.' co-consul a Tullius (!) [1.283]), S. is probably as unlikely to be historical as the references to S. for 496 and 49…