Servius
historical figure · 4 works · 11 mentions · 11 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman commentator cited for the account of land granted by the Latins to the Trojans.
Seven hundred acres of barren and uncultivated land, as Servius observes, were given by the native Latins to the Trojans.
There was amoung the Athenians an altar dedicated to Mercy;
Indeed in the war against Pyrrhus the declaration was made to one of his soldiers, in the Flaminian Circus, where, as Servius observes in his notes on the sixth book of the Aeneid, he was commanded to purchase a piece of ground, as a handle for dispute.
Institutes of Roman Law
Jurist who held a legacy to a person in the power of the instituted heir is valid but lapses if the dependency persists when it would vest.
§ 244. An ei qui in potestate sit eius quem heredem instituimus recte legemus, quaeritur. Seruius recte legari putat, sed euanescere legatum, si quo tempore dies legatorum cedere solet, adhuc in potestate sit; ideoque siue pure legatum sit et uiuo testatore in potestate heredis esse desierit, siue sub condicione et ante condicionem id acciderit, deberi legatum. Sabinus et Cassius sub condicione re …
Servius holds that the bequest is valid, though it lapses if he continue under power at the date when the legacies vest;
13, 3, 3, the opinion of the jurist Servius is perhaps inadvertently adopted by the compilers:
On Fate
Roman grammarian and commentator on Vergil, whose commentary preserves Cicero's definition of fate.
’ (Servius, on Vergil, Aeneid 3.
Letters to Lucilius
Legendary Roman king whose mother's identity was disputed
For there is doubt about the mother of Servius;