Publius Servilius Geminus Explained

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 BC, 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 BC, 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

• Book: Broughton, T. Robert S. . Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton

. 1951 . The Magistrates of the Roman Republic Volume I: 509 B.C.–100 B.C. . 219, 226 . American Philological Association . New York . Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton . .

• Book: Lendering, Jona . Jona Lendering

. 2022. De Vergeten Oorlog. 100, 108. Uitgeverij Omniboek . Utrecht . Jona Lendering . .

Classic Sources

• Diodorus, Bibliotheca historica, book 23.
• Zonaras, Extracts of History, book 4, fragment 14.

Notes and References

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