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{{Short description|Roman consul who defeated the Samnites in 304 BC}}
'''Publius Sulpicius Saverrio''' was a Roman politician of the fourth and third centuries BC.<ref name="DGRBM Saverrio">"Saverrio", in ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. III, pp. 728, 729.</ref>
==Family==
Saverrio was a member of gens [[Sulpicia gens|Sulpicia]].  His father was named Servius, and his grandfather Publius.<ref>''Fasti Triumphales''.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, pp. 167, 172.</ref>  His son was [[Publius Sulpicius Saverrio]], consul in 279 BC.<ref>''Fasti Capitolini''.</ref><ref name="DGRBM Saverrio"/><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 192.</ref>
==Career==
In 304 BC, Sulpicius was elected consul together with [[Publius Sempronius Sophus]] as his colleague.<ref>Livy, ix. 45.</ref><ref name="DGRBM Saverrio"/><ref name="Broughton I 167">Broughton, vol. I, p. 167.</ref> In this year, the [[Samnite Wars|Second Samnite War]] was settled by a peace treaty. Then the [[Aequi]] were defeated in a short time, and Sophus triumphed over them, while Saverrio was celebrating his triumph over the Samnites.<ref>Livy, ix. 45.</ref><ref>Niebuhr, ''History of Rome'', p. 258.</ref><ref name="Broughton I 167"/> Saverrio was elected [[Roman censor|censor]] for the year 300, alongside his consular colleague.  They established two new [[Roman tribe|tribes]]: ''Aniensis'' and ''Terentina''.<ref>Livy, x. 9.</ref><ref name="DGRBM Saverrio"/><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 172.</ref> Saverrio served as [[Interrex]] in 298.<ref>Livy, x. 11.</ref><ref>Broughton, vol. I, p. 174.</ref>
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Fasti Capitolini]]'', {{AE|1900|83}}; 1904, 114; {{AE|1927|101}}; 1940, 59, 60.
* ''[[Fasti Triumphales]]'', {{AE|1889|70}}; 1898, 80; 1904, 113, 196; 1930, 60; 1940, 61.
* Titus Livius ([[Livy]]), ''[[Ab Urbe Condita Libri|History of Rome]]''.
* [[Barthold Georg Niebuhr]], ''The History of Rome'', Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall, trans., John Smith, Cambridge (1828).
* ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', [[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]], ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
* René Cagnat ''et alii'', ''[[L'Année épigraphique]]'' (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated ''AE''), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
* [[Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton|T. Robert S. Broughton]], ''The Magistrates of the Roman Republic'', American Philological Association (1952–1986).
[[Category:4th-century BC Roman consuls]]
[[Category:3rd-century BC Roman senators]]
[[Category:Sulpicii]]
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