Servius in a sentence

When Servius Tullius arrived at the senate-house to defend his position, Tarquinius threw him down the steps and Servius was murdered in the street by Tarquin's men.

All three Vatican Mythographers repeat Servius' derivation of Cerberus' name from creoboros.

An etymology given by Servius (the late fourth century commentator on Virgil ) but rejected by Ogden derives Cerberus from the Greek word creoboros meaning "flesh-devouring".

By the time of Servius, if not long before, the tribes of the comitia were a minority of the population, ruling a multitude with no effective voice in their own government.

Cornell, pp. 57 - 60 Servius Tullius has been described as Rome's "second founder", "the most complex and enigmatic" of all its kings, and a kind of "proto-Republican magistrate".

E.g. Servius's hair was kindled by his father without hurting him, his statue in the temple of Fortuna Primigenia was unharmed by fire after his assassination.

He bestowed presents upon them, and spread criticism of Servius the king.

His personal reputation and achievements may have led to his historical association with temples and shrines to Fortuna; some sources suggest that the two were connected during Servius' lifetime, via some form of "sacred marriage".

Hist. Rom. p154., for the appearance of the nimbus around the sleeping Servius in adulthood, while as his wife is dying.

However schoolmates considered Virgil extremely shy and reserved, according to Servius, and he was nicknamed "Parthenias" or "maiden" because of his social aloofness.

In modern Rome, an ancient portion of surviving wall is attributed to Servius, the remainder supposedly being rebuilt after the sack of Rome in 390/387 BC by the Gauls.

In Plutarch, Servius reluctantly consented to the kingship at the death-bed insistence of Tanaquil.

In Servius, Augustus found ready association with a popular benefactor and refounder of Rome, whose reluctance to adopt kingship distanced him from its taints.

In the 4th century, Servius had described Hercules' return from the underworld as representing his ability to overcome earthly desires and vices, or the earth itself as a consumer of bodies.

It was based on Donatus' De pedibus and Servius ' De finalibus, and used examples from Christian poets as well as Virgil.

King Servius Tullius, in reforming the Roman social organisation, required that every adolescent offer a coin to the goddess of youth upon entering adulthood.

Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1.40 Tanaquil immediately ordered the palace to be shut, and publicly announced from a palace window that Tarquinius had appointed Servius as regent; meanwhile, Tarquinius died of his wounds.

Livy depicts Servius' mother as a captured Latin princess enslaved by the Romans; her child is chosen as Rome's future king after a ring of fire is seen around his head.

Moreover, Oscan epithet Leucesius (present also in the Carmen Saliare) and Lucetius (Servius Aen.

Other sources (Duris of Samos; the Vergilian commentator Servius) report that Penelope slept with all 108 suitors in Odysseus' absence, and gave birth to Pan as a result.