Priscus Servilius

, a dictator at Rome who defeated the Veientes and the Fidenates.――A surname of the elder Tarquin king of Rome. See: Tarquinius .――A governor of Syria, brother to the emperor Philip. He proclaimed himself emperor in Macedonia when he was informed of his brother’s death, but he was soon after conquered and put to death by Decius, Philip’s murderer.――A friend of the emperor Severus.――A friend of the emperor Julian, almost murdered by the populace.――Helvidius, a questor in Achaia during the reign of Nero, remarkable for his independent spirit. Tacitus , Histories , bk. 4 , ch. 6 .— Juvenal. ――An officer under Vitelli us.――One of the emperor Adrian’s friends.――A friend of Domitian.――An orator, whose di ipated and luxurious manners Horace ridicules, bk. 1 , satire 7, li. 9 .