Examples of using Servius in English and their translations into Spanish
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Servius, note to Aeneid 1.
Isn't this Servius Tullius?
Servius, note to Aeneid 8.654.
Leased to Servius Security.
Servius Tullius is most famous for his series of tax reforms.
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On this spot,King Servius was murdered by Tarquin.
There are 54 excerpts in the Pandects from the 40 books of the Digesta of Alfenus; butit is conjectured that Alfenus may have acted only as the editor of the work of Servius.
We will check every site on Servius books until we find the one he's moved her to.
Maurus Servius Honoratus was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian, with the contemporary reputation of being the most learned man of his generation in Italy; he was the author of a set of commentaries on the works of Virgil.
The first is a comparatively short commentary, which is attributed to Servius in the superscription in the manuscripts and by other internal evidence.
According to a tradition recounted by Titus Livy, the hill received its name from Caelius Vibenna,either because he established a settlement there or because his friend Servius Tullius wished to honor him after his death.
Fulvius was grandson of Servius Fulvius Paetinus Nobilior consul in 255 BC.
Recapitulation WE can now perhaps understand why the ancients identified Hippolytus, the consort of Artemis,with Virbius, who, according to Servius, stood to Diana as Adonis to Venus, or Attis to the Mother of the Gods.
Her mate, if the testimony of Servius may be trusted, was that Virbius who had his representative, or perhaps rather his embodiment, in the King of the Wood at Nemi.
Aphrodite gave him three golden apples- which came from her sacred apple-tree in Tamasus, Cyprus, according to Ovid, orfrom the garden of the Hesperides according to Servius- and told him to drop them one at a time to distract Atalanta.
Galba(/ˈsɜːrviəs sʌlˈpɪʃəs ˈɡælbə/; Latin: Servius Sulpicius Galba Caesar Augustus; 24 December 3 BC- 15 January 69 AD) was Roman emperor for seven months from 68 to 69.
Servius, on Aeneid 6.136; less familiar slayers were Hippolytus, after his resurrection as Virbius(Aeneid 7.765-82) or Thoas father of Hypsipyle, after his escape from the Lemnian massacre(Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.301-05) Frazer.
There are variants to these three traditions:for example, Servius, when speaking of the second tradition, made the Parthenians' fathers slaves.
The daughter of Servius Sulpicius Paterculus, Sulpicia was one of one hundred Roman matrons who were candidates to dedicate the statue of Venus Verticordia(the changer of hearts), who was believed"to turn the minds of women from vice to virtue.
Horace(Ars poetica, 17) and the commentators on Virgil,such as Servius, recognize that descriptions of loci amoeni have become a rhetorical commonplace.
Servius calls him Pinarius Natta, in a passage of uncertain genuineness, but the only known wife of Clodius was Fulvia; thus it is widely believed that her brother must have been Lucius Fulvius Natta, although that surname is otherwise unknown in the Fulvia gens.
But Nero was unpopular in the area, and when the governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, Servius Sulpicius Galba, said he wished to overthrow Nero, the legion supported him and he was proclaimed Emperor in the VI Victrix legionary camp.
Servius' commentary provides us with a great deal of information about Virgil's life, sources, and references; however, many modern scholars find the variable quality of his work and the often simplistic interpretations frustrating.
The nomen Servilius is a patronymic surname,derived from the praenomen Servius(meaning"one who keeps safe" or"preserves"), which must have been borne by the ancestor of the gens.
The 4th-century AD Latin commentator Servius was aware of the Egyptian use of the symbol, noting that the image of a snake biting its tail represents the cyclical nature of the year.
The notices of Virgil's text, though seldom or never authoritative in face of the existing manuscripts, which go back to, oreven beyond, the time of Servius, yet supply valuable information concerning the ancient recensions and textual criticism of Virgil.
They were defeated by Praetor Servius Galba: springing a clever trap, he killed 9,000 Lusitanians and later sold 20,000 more as slaves further northeast in the newly conquered Roman provinces in Gaul(modern France) by Julius Caesar.
In this connexion it may be significant that a festival of jollity and drunkenness was celebrated by the plebeians and slaves at Rome on Midsummer Day, andthat the festival was specially associated with the fireborn King Servius Tullius, being held in honour of Fortuna, the goddess who loved Servius as Egeria loved Numa.
In the grammatical interpretation of his author's language, Servius does not rise above the stiff and overwrought subtleties of his time; while his etymologies, as is natural, violate every modern law of sound and sense in favour of creative excursus.
The traditional derivation of"Tullianum" is from the name of one of the Roman kings Tullus Hostilius or Servius Tullius(the latter is found in Livy, Varro, and also Sallust); there is an alternative theory that it is from the archaic Latin tullius"a jet of water", in reference to the cistern.
