Quintus Servilius edit

Career

1. 91 BCE
   Praetor edit

   Sent as Praetor (or at the end of his praetorship with proconsular imperium) to Asculum to watch the Picentes. The murder of him and his Legate Fonteius was the spark that ignited the Social War (a).

   Servilius is termed Praetor in Vell., Diod., and Oros., who also applies the title Legate to him, but Proconsul in Liv. and App. He was either a Praetor, who had received an imperium pro consule, as Mommsen thinks (b), or the incident occurred very early in 90 B. C. This date is not impossible as the death of Livius Drusus did not occur until autumn (c). We are not told the status of a certain Domitius who met a body of Italians under Pompaedius marching on Rome and dissuaded them (d).

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