Publius Servilius Geminus

Publius Servilius Geminus was a Roman statesman and general during the middle era of the Roman Republic. He was one of the two consuls of 252 BCE, serving with Gaius Aurelius Cotta.[1] They fought against the Carthaginians in the ongoing First Punic War; Geminus and Cotta were very successful; they took several Carthaginian strongholds on Sicily (including Himera, but its inhabitants had been secretly removed by the Carthaginians).[1] In 248 he obtained the consulship a second time, together with his former colleague, Aurelius Cotta, and again fought in Sicily against the Carthaginians.[2]

Modern Sources

  • Broughton, T. Robert S. (1951). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic Volume I: 509 B.C.–100 B.C. New York: American Philological Association. pp. 219, 226.
  • Lendering, Jona (2022). De Vergeten Oorlog. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Omniboek. pp. 100, 108.

Classic Sources

References

  1. Broughton, p. 219; Lendering, p.100.
  2. Broughton, p. 226; Lendering, p. 108.
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