Sérvio

The name comes from the “gens Servīlĭa,” patrician family at Rome, which in turn derives from the Latin “servĭo,” meaning “serve, be a servant, devote themselves, to look after someone, take care. The Gens was celebrated during the early ages of the Republic, and the names of few gentes appear more frequently at this period in the consular Fasti. It continued to produce men of influence in the state down to the Republic’s latest times, and even in the imperial period. The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was Publius Servilius Priscus Structus in 495 BC. The last name in the consular Fasti is Quintus Servilius Silanus, in AD 189, thus occupying a prominent position in the Roman state for nearly seven hundred years.