Servius Cornelius Maluginensis was a politician and general of the

Roman Republic The Roman Republic ( la, Res publica Romana ) was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kin ...

. He was elected

consular tribune A consular tribune was putatively a type of magistrate in the early Roman Republic. According to Roman tradition, colleges of consular tribunes held office throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BC during the so-called "Conflict of the Or ...

seven times in 386, 384, 382, 380, 376, 370, and 368 BC. Despite having one of the most successful careers of the Republic, Servius' life is seldom known.

Family background

Servius belonged to the

patrician Patrician may refer to: * Patrician (ancient Rome), the original aristocratic families of ancient Rome, and a synonym for "aristocratic" in modern English usage * Patrician (post-Roman Europe), the governing elites of cities in parts of medieval ...

gens In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...

'' Cornelia, one of the oldest and most successful gentes of the Republic; no other gens had more consulships than the Cornelii. The cognomen ''Maluginensis'' is the first recorded among the Cornelii; it was first borne by Servius Cornelius, also the first consul of the gens. Servius was the son of Publius Cornelius Maluginensis, consular tribune in 404, and the grandson of Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis, consul in 436. He also had an elder brother, Publius Cornelius Maluginensis, the first to bear the famous cognomen of ''Scipio'', who was consular tribune in 397, 395, and 394. The cognomen indicates that the family originated from (or had properties in) a town name Malugino, although no place of that name has been identified yet.

Career

Consular tribune (386 BC)

Servius was elected consular tribune a second time in 386. His colleagues were

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Quintus Servilius Fidenas Quintus Servilius Fidenas was a prominent early Roman politician who achieved the position of Consular tribune six times throughout a sixteen-year period. Quintus Servilius was a member of the illustrious gens Servilia, a patrician family which h ...

, Lucius Quinctius Cicinnatus, Lucius Horatius Pulvillus, and

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. The consular college was dominated by Camillus, whom had saved Rome from the Gauls four years previous. As a result of this, the other tribunes voluntarily gave up their independent authority, becoming de facto subordinates of Camillus. In this year the Volscians of Antium attacked the Pomptine territory, a piece of land that the Romans coveted. As a result Camillus decided to lead a campaign against the Antiates, assigning the other five tribunes with duties to attend to attend to while he conducted this. To Servius Cornelius, he delegated control over the city and state while he was away from the city.

Consular tribune (384 BC)

Servius was elected consular tribune a second time in 384. His colleague were Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, Marcus Furius Camillus, Servius Sulpicius Rufus, Gaius Papirius Crassus, and Titus Quinctius Capitolinus.

Consular tribune (382 BC)

Servius was elected consular tribune a third time in 382. His colleague were Spurius Papirius Crassus, Lucius Papirius Mugillanus, Quintus Servilius Fidenas, Gaius Sulpicius Camerinus, and Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus.

Consular tribune (380 BC)

Servius was elected consular tribune a fourth time in 380. His colleague were Lucius Valerius Poplicola, Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, Licinus Menenius Lanatus, Gaius Sulpicius Peticus, Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus, Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas Coxo, Tiberius Papirius Crassus, and Lucius Papirius Mugillanus.

Consular tribune (376 BC)

Servius was elected consular tribune a fifth time in 376. His colleague were Lucius Papirius Mugillanus, Licinus Menenius Lanatus, and Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus.

Consular tribune (370 BC)

Servius was elected consular tribune a sixth time in 370. His colleague were Lucius Furius Medullinus, Aulus Manlius Capitolinus, Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus, Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, Gaius Valerius Potitus.

Consular tribune (368 BC)

Servius was elected consular tribune a seventh time in 368. His colleague were Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus Capitolinus, Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus, Spurius Servilius Structus, Lucius Papirius Crassus, and Lucius Veturius Crassus Cicurinus.Broughton, vol. I, pp. 111, 112.

Magister Equitum (361 BC)

References

Bibliography

Ancient works

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Ancient Rome, Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditiona ...

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Ab Urbe Condita ''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...

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by Rev. Canon Roberts on Wikisource).

Modern works

* T. Robert S. Broughton, ''The Magistrates of the Roman Republic'', American Philological Association, 1951–1952. *

Attilio Degrassi Attilio Degrassi (Trieste, 21 June 1887 – Rome, 1 June 1969) was an archeologist and pioneering Italian scholar of Latin epigraphy. Degrassi taught at the University of Padova where he trained, among others, the epigraphist Silvio Panciera, c ...

, ''Fasti Capitolini recensuit, praefatus est, indicibus instruxit Atilius Degrassi'', Turin, 1954. *Henri Etcheto,
Les Scipions. Famille et pouvoir à Rome à l’époque républicaine
', Bordeaux, Ausonius Éditions, 2012 *

Friedrich Münzer Friedrich Münzer (22 April 1868 – 20 October 1942) was a German classical scholar noted for the development of prosopography, particularly for his demonstrations of how family relationships in ancient Rome connected to political struggles. He d ...

, ''Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families'', translated by Thérèse Ridley, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 (originally published in 1920). *

Stephen Oakley Stephen Phelps Oakley, FBA (born 20 November 1958) is a British classicist and academic. An expert on the work of Livy, he is the ninth Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. Career Oakley ...

, ''A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X Volume I: Introduction and Book VI'', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1999. *

Robert Maxwell Ogilvie Robert Maxwell Ogilvie FRSE FSA FBA DLitt (5 June 1932 – 7 November 1981) was a British scholar of Latin literature and Classical language, classical philology. Life His parents were Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie (1893–1949), director-general ...

, ''Commentary on Livy, books 1–5'', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965. * August Pauly,

Georg Wissowa Georg Otto August Wissowa (17 June 1859 – 11 May 1931) was a German classical philologist born in Neudorf, near Breslau. Education and career Wissowa studied classical philology under August Reifferscheid at the University of Breslau ...

, Friedrich Münzer, ''et alii'', '' Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft'' (abbreviated ''PW''), J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 1894–1980. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornelius Maluginensis, Servius Ancient Roman generals Roman consular tribunes Roman patricians 4th-century BC Romans Cornelii