Servius Cornelius Maluginensis was a

Roman senator The Roman Senate () was the highest and Roman constitution, constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy. With different powers throughout its existence it lasted from the first days of the Rome, city of Rome (traditionally founded ...

who was elected consul in 485 BC.

Family

Maluginensis was from the patrician ''Cornelii Maluginenses'', one of the oldest attested branches of the '' gens Cornelia''. It is possible that he carried the ''agnomen'' of "Tricostus." He was the son of a Publius Cornelius Maluginensis and he was the father of Lucius Cornelius Maluginensis Uritus Cossus (consul of 459 BC) and the grandfather of

Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis was a Roman politician and member of the Second Decemvirate in 450 and 449 BC. Family He was part of the ''Cornelii Maluginenses'', patrician branch of the ''gens Cornelia''. He was grandson of Servius Cornelius Ma ...

( decemvir in 450 BC, and decemvir with consular power between 450 and 449 BC).

Biography

In 485 BC, he was elected consul with Quintus Fabius Vibulanus. At the beginning of their term,

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was condemned for '' perduellio'' by the quaestors Kaeso Fabius Vibulanus and Lucius Valerius Potitus Publicola, and was put to death. The consuls launched raids into the lands of the

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, with Vibulanus winning a new victory against the

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and the

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. Instead of dividing the plunder amongst the soldiers, which was the traditional practice, Vibulanus offered all of it to the public treasury, which made him very unpopular among the people and the soldiers. He later became '' flamen quirinalis'', the

flamen A (plural ''flamines'') was a priest of the ancient Roman religion who was assigned to one of fifteen deities with official cults during the Roman Republic. The most important of these were the three (or "major priests"), who served the importa ...

devotee in the cult of

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, and held this title until 453 BC, the probable year of his death, during an epidemic of pestilence or typhus which also took the consul Sextus Quinctilius Varus and the consul suffect who replaced him, Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus.

Notes

Bibliography

Primary sources

Livy, ''The History of Rome'', Books II-III

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Secondary sources

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornelius Maluginensis, Servius 453 BC deaths 5th-century BC Roman consuls Maluginensis, Servius Year of birth unknown