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{{Short description|5th century BC Roman senator and consul}}
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| name          = Publius Servilius Priscus
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| death_date    = 463 BC
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| nationality   = Roman
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| office        = [[Roman consul|Consul]] (463 BC)
| children      = [[Quintus Servilius Priscus Fidenas]]
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'''Publius Servilius Priscus'''<ref name=Broughton34>{{harvnb|Broughton|1951|p=34}}</ref><ref>''[[Pauly-Wissowa]]'', vol. II A (2), col. 1803 ([[s:de:RE:Servilius 73|Servilius 73]])</ref> was a [[Roman senator]] active in the fifth century BC and [[Roman consul|consul]] in 463 BC.
==Family==
He was probably the son of [[Spurius Servilius Priscus Structus (consul 476 BC)|Spurius Servilius Structus]] (consul in 476 BC), and the father of [[Quintus Servilius Priscus Fidenas]], [[Roman dictator|dictator]] in 435 and 418 BC. [[Diodorus Siculus]] gives him the paternal ''[[cognomen]]'' of "Structus", which was carried by his ancestors, but the name was not given to him by either the ''[[Fasti Capitolini]]'' or [[Livy]] (4.21.9).<ref name=Broughton35>{{harvnb|Broughton|1951|p=35}}</ref>
==Biography==
In 463 BC, he was elected consul with [[Lucius Aebutius Elva]] as his colleague.<ref name=Broughton34/> They entered office on the first of August, because at the time the consular years began on that day. In the beginning of September, the livestock was stricken by an epidemic, which also afflicted the people. According to [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], the epidemic began with the livestock then began to spread throughout the city, killing many people.<ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus IX, 67</ref> It entered the city because the peasants took refuge in Rome, bringing their livestock with them. Both Elva and Priscus fell to the pestilence, in that order. The [[augur]]s, [[Manius Valerius Maximus]] and [[Titus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus]], and ''Curio Maximus'' [[Servius Suplicius Camerinus Cornutus]] fell to the affliction that year as well.<ref name=Broughton35/>
When the two consuls were found dead, an ''[[interrex]]'' was given a period of five days to elect new consuls. At the end of the fifth day, elections were not held, and a new interrex took over. Consular elections were held in 462 BC, during the interregnum of [[Publius Valerius Publicola (consul 475 BC)|Publius Valerius Publicola]], resulting in the election of [[Lucius Lucretius Tricipitinus]] and [[Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus (consul 462 BC)|Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus]] as consuls.<ref>Livy III, 8</ref><ref name=Broughton35/>
==Notes==
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==Bibliography==
===Primary sources===
* [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/9C*.html Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Roman Antiquities'', Book IX]
* [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0153%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D8 Livy, ''The History of Rome'', Books III-IV]
===Secondary sources===
* {{citation|first=Thomas Robert Shannon|last=Broughton|author-link=Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton|title=The Magistrates of the Roman Republic|publisher=American Philological Association|series=Philological Monograph No. 15|year=1951|location=New York|isbn=0-89130-811-3}}
* {{DGRBM|author=WS|title=Priscus No. 5|volume=3|page=528|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0003.001/536}}
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{{s-aft|after=[[Lucius Lucretius Tricipitinus|L. Lucretius Tricipitinus]]|after2=[[Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus (consul 462 BC)|T. Veturius Geminus Cicurinus]]}}
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