.jpg "Gaius Servilius Ahala"){kind=small}
Marcus Junius Brutus
Search results
Gaius Servilius Ahala ( fl. 439 BC) was a 5th-century BC politician of ancient Rome, considered by many later writers to have been a hero. His fame rested on the contention that he saved Rome from Spurius Maelius in 439 BC by killing him with a dagger concealed under an armpit.
Gaius Servilius Structus Ahala (died c. 478 BC) was a Roman senator from the early Republic, who held the office of consul in 478 BC. During his term of office he commanded two legions in a war against the Volsci.
Gaius Servilius Ahala was a three time consular tribune of the Roman Republic in 408, 407 and 402 BC. He was also magister equitum in 408 BC. Servilius belonged to the Servilia gens, an old and prominent patrician gens of the early Republic which rose to prominence in the middle of the 5th-century BC. Filiations suggest that Servilius' father ...
Gaius Servilius Ahala was celebrated in Roman tradition as a hero who freed his country from the threat of tyranny by killing Sp. *Maelius (439 bce) with a dagger he had hidden under his arm—whence the surname Ahala (= ‘armpit’).
Overview. Servilius Ahala, Gaius. Quick Reference. ( RE 32) was celebrated in Roman tradition as a hero who freed his country from the threat of tyranny by killing Sp. Maelius (439 bc) with a dagger he had ... From: Servilius Ahala, Gaius in The Oxford Classical Dictionary » Subjects: Classical studies. Related content in Oxford Reference.
Shortly thereafter, Maelius was killed—supposedly by a man named Gaius Servilius Ahala—and his house razed. The story is found in sources from the 2nd century bc, including works by the historian Lucius Cincius Alimentus and the poet Ennius.
People also ask
Who was Gaius Servilius Ahala?
Why was Gaius a hero?
How should Servilius be named?
What does Livy call Gaius Servilius?
The ensuing year had for consular tribunes 1 Gaius Servilius Ahala (for the third time), Quintus Servilius, Lucius Verginius, Quintus Sulpicius, Aulus Manlius (for the second time), and Manius Sergius [p. 29] (for the second time).
