Publius Sulpicius Saverrio (consul 304 BC)
Publius Sulpicius Saverrio was a Roman politician of the fourth and third centuries BC.[1]
Family
[edit]Saverrio was a member of gens Sulpicia. His father was named Servius, and his grandfather Publius.[2][3] His son was Publius Sulpicius Saverrio, consul in 279 BC.[4][1][5]
Career
[edit]In 304 BC, Sulpicius was elected consul together with Publius Sempronius Sophus as his colleague.[6][1][7] In this year, the Second Samnite War was settled by a peace treaty. Then the Aequi were defeated in a short time, and Sophus triumphed over them, while Saverrio was celebrating his triumph over the Samnites.[8][9][7] Saverrio was elected censor for the year 300, alongside his consular colleague. They established two new tribes: Aniensis and Terentina.[10][1][11] Saverrio served as Interrex in 298.[12][13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Saverrio", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 728, 729.
- ^ Fasti Triumphales.
- ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 167, 172.
- ^ Fasti Capitolini.
- ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 192.
- ^ Livy, ix. 45.
- ^ a b Broughton, vol. I, p. 167.
- ^ Livy, ix. 45.
- ^ Niebuhr, History of Rome, p. 258.
- ^ Livy, x. 9.
- ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 172.
- ^ Livy, x. 11.
- ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 174.
Bibliography
[edit]- Fasti Capitolini, AE 1900, 83; 1904, 114; AE 1927, 101; 1940, 59, 60.
- Fasti Triumphales, AE 1889, 70; 1898, 80; 1904, 113, 196; 1930, 60; 1940, 61.
- Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome.
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr, The History of Rome, Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall, trans., John Smith, Cambridge (1828).
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
- T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952–1986).
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