Fidenas(66 words)
[German version]
Roman cognomen (‘victor over Fidenae’), transmitted for the Sergii and Servilii of the early Republican era (5th/4th cents. BC); the dictator Q. Servilius Priscus allegedly captured the town of Fidenae in Latium in 435 and subsequently was given the epithet (Liv. 4,45,5).
Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum)
Bibliography
Kajanto, Cognomina 181
F. Münzer, s.v. Servilius, RE II A 2, 1789f.; 1803f.
W. Reichmuth, Die lat. Gentilicia, 1956, 55.
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
“Fidenas”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 28 January 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e411410>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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