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Servilia (gens)
The ''gens Servilia'' was a patrician family at Rome. 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 latest times of the Republic, and even in the imperial period. The first member of the ''gens'' who obtained the consulship was Publius Servilius Priscus Structus in 495 BC, and the last of the name who appears 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.
Like other Roman ''gentes'', the Servilii of course had their own ''sacra''; and they are said to have worshipped a ''triens'', or copper coin, which is reported to have increased or diminished in size at various times, thus indicating the increase or diminution of the honors of the ''gens''. Although the Servilii were originally patricians, in the later Republic there were also plebeian Servilii.〔''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor.〕〔''Fasti Capitolini''.〕〔Gaius Plinius Secundus, ''Historia Naturalis'', xxxiv. 13. s. 38.〕
==Origin of the gens==
According to tradition, the Servilia ''gens'' was one of the Alban houses removed to Rome by Tullus Hostilius, and enrolled by him among the patricians. It was, consequently, one of the ''gentes minores''. 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''.〔Titus Livius, ''Ab Urbe Condita'', i. 30.〕〔George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. VIII (1897).〕
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