Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus

• Preferred Name: Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus ^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Execution+of+Servius+Cornelius+Scipio+Orfitus: 66 in Rome, Italy, Roman Empire at LATI: N1.9 LONG: E2.4833 with note: Description: Servius Cornelius Ser. f. Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, served at various times as quaestor and praetor urbanus, and was consul in AD 51, serving alongside the emperor Claudius. He held several priesthoods, and was governor of Africa in 62 and 63. Nero had him put to death in 66, ostensibly for wrongfully renting three shops attached to his house, but more likely because of a perceived insult.[19][20][21][22][23]
  
• Death: BEF 238 in Roman Empire at LATI: N1.9667 LONG: E2.6667
  
• Birth: BEF 201 in Roman Empire at LATI: N1.9667 LONG: E2.6667
  
• Occupation: Senator and Consul ordinaris51 in Rome, Italy, Roman Empire at LATI: N1.9 LONG: E2.4833
  
• FSID: GVH4-H65
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wikipedia
  
  Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (died AD 66) was a Roman senator, and consul ordinarius for the year 51, as the colleague of the emperor Claudius.[1] His father Orfitus was one of the seven sons of Vistilia, a noblewoman who came from a family that had held the praetorship, although some have erroneously stated Servius himself was the husband of Vistilia.[2]
  
  He became a member of the gens Cornelia through adoption by an otherwise unknown Servius Cornelius Scipio.
  
  His career is set forth in an inscription found at Lepcis Magna, dated to AD 61 or 62.[3] According to the inscription, he was first quaestor to the emperor Claudius, then praetor urbanus; both of these are prestigious offices, and he likely owed them to his father's half-brother, Publius Suillius Rufus, who was an intimate associate of Claudius. Following his consulate in 51, Servius was inducted into the collegia of Pontifices and the sodales Augustales, two socially powerful groups. He was proconsular governor of Africa for the term Summer 62/Summer 63; one Publius Silius Celer is mentioned as his legatus or assistant.
  
  Our next glimpse of Orfitus is in Tacitus, who records that in AD in 65 that he proposed that the months of May and June be renamed Claudius and Germanicus, respectively, in honor of the emperor Nero, explaining that the deaths of Decimus and Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus had rendered the name "Junius" inauspicious.[4] Frederik Juliaan Vervaet has argued that instead of an act of flattery, Nero and his partisans may have interpreted this proposal as a subtle form of criticism. If so, it would explain the actual motivation for Marcus Aquilius Regulus accusing Orfitus in the Senate of being a traitor to Nero the following year.[5][6] Regardless of the motivation, Orfitus was found guilty and executed.[7][8]
  
  Orfitus' son, Servius, was consul at some point before AD 87, under the Flavian dynasty, but the year has not been determined.
  
  A grandson, also named Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, followed in their footsteps and became consul in AD 110, under the emperor Trajan.
  
  === Achternaam Salvidienus ===
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1. Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, b. BEF 206 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy     d. BEF 263 in Roman Empire

1. Title: Wikipedia Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus
   Author: Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), p. 409 ^ Ronald Syme, "Domitius Corbulo", Journal of Roman Studies, 60 (1970), p. 31. ^ Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, 341 ^ Tacitus, Annales, xv. 12. ^ Vervaet, "A Note on Syme's Chronology of Vistilia's Children", Ancient Society, 30 (2000), pp. 108 ff. ^ Tacitus, Histories, iv. 42. ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Nero", 37. ^ Cassius Dio, lxii. 27.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servius_Cornelius_Scipio_Salvidienus_Orfitus_(consul_51);
   Note: Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (died AD 66) was a Roman senator, and consul ordinarius for the year 51, as the colleague of the emperor Claudius.[1] His father Orfitus was one of the seven sons of Vistilia, a noblewoman who came from a family that had held the praetorship, although some have erroneously stated Servius himself was the husband of Vistilia.[2] He became a member of the gens Cornelia through adoption by an otherwise unknown Servius Cornelius Scipio. His career is set forth in an inscription found at Lepcis Magna, dated to AD 61 or 62.[3] According to the inscription, he was first quaestor to the emperor Claudius, then praetor urbanus; both of these are prestigious offices, and he likely owed them to his father's half-brother, Publius Suillius Rufus, who was an intimate associate of Claudius. Following his consulate in 51, Servius was inducted into the collegia of Pontifices and the sodales Augustales, two socially powerful groups. He was proconsular governor of Africa for the term Summer 62/Summer 63; one Publius Silius Celer is mentioned as his legatus or assistant. Our next glimpse of Orfitus is in Tacitus, who records that in AD in 65 that he proposed that the months of May and June be renamed Claudius and Germanicus, respectively, in honor of the emperor Nero, explaining that the deaths of Decimus and Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus had rendered the name "Junius" inauspicious.[4] Frederik Juliaan Vervaet has argued that instead of an act of flattery, Nero and his partisans may have interpreted this proposal as a subtle form of criticism. If so, it would explain the actual motivation for Marcus Aquilius Regulus accusing Orfitus in the Senate of being a traitor to Nero the following year.[5][6] Regardless of the motivation, Orfitus was found guilty and executed.[7][8] Orfitus' son, Servius, was consul at some point before AD 87, under the Flavian dynasty, but the year has not been determined. A grandson, also named Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, followed in their footsteps and became consul in AD 110, under the emperor Trajan.
   
2. Title: Wikipedia - Gens Salvidiena
   Author: Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome. Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars). Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Civile (The Civil War). Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History. Aelius Lampridius, Aelius Spartianus, Flavius Vopiscus, Julius Capitolinus, Trebellius Pollio, and Vulcatius Gallicanus, Historia Augusta (Augustan History). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present). Supplementa Italica (Supplement for Italy), Unione Accademica Nazionale.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvidiena_gens;
   Note: Salvidieni Orfiti Servius Cornelius Ser. f. Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, served at various times as quaestor and praetor urbanus, and was consul in AD 51, serving alongside the emperor Claudius. He held several priesthoods, and was governor of Africa in 62 and 63. Nero had him put to death in 66, ostensibly for wrongfully renting three shops attached to his house, but more likely because of a perceived insult.[19][20][21][22][23] Servius Cornelius Ser. f. Ser. n. Salvidienus Orfitus, one of several former consuls put to death by Domitian, on the charge of plotting revolution.[24][25] Servius Cornelius Ser. f. Ser. n. Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, consul in AD 110, when he must have been a young man; he was praefectus urbi in the reign of Antoninus Pius.[26][27][28][29] Lucius Sergius Salvidienus Scipio Orfitus, consul in AD 149.[30] Servius Cornelius Ser. f. Ser. n. Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, consul in an uncertain year, and governor of Africa from AD 163 to 164.[31] Servius Cornelius (Ser. f. Ser. n.) Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, consul in AD 178.[32] Servius Cornelius (Ser. f. Ser. n.) Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, one of the Salii Palatini in AD 189 and 190.[33]