Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus

Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus (probably born c. 540 BC, still living 463 BC) was consul at Rome in the year 500 BC with Manius Tullius Longus. The short form of his name is Camerinus.

Servius Sulpicius Camerinus
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office 1 September 500 BC [1] – 29 August 499 BC Serving with Manius Tullius Longus
Preceded by	Postumus Cominius Auruncus, Titus Lartius
Succeeded by	Titus Aebutius Elva, Gaius Veturius Geminus Cicurinus
Personal details
Born	c. 540 Ancient Rome
Died	unknown Ancient Rome

Livy reports that no important events occurred during this year, but Dionysius of Halicarnassus states that Camerinus detected and crushed a conspiracy to restore the Tarquins to power and fought the Fidenae. His fellow-consul Tullius died during Ludi Romani that year, leaving him as sole ruler.[2][3][4][5][6][7] As an ex-consul he was selected to be one of the ten envoys sent by the senate to treat with the plebeians during the first secessio plebis.[8]

Camerinus was the first consul of the patrician family of the Sulpicii, which may have taken its name from the town of Cameria or Camerium in Latium. He was the father of Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus, consul in 490 BC. He was also the first man to be clearly identified in ancient literature as a curio maximus, holding the office in 463 BC.[9]

Notes

1. Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
2. William Smith (Ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
3. Livy, The History of Rome, 2.19
4. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 5.52
5. Joannes Zonaras, Epitome Historiarum, 7.13
6. Cicero, Brutus 16
7. Broughton, vol i. pp.10, 35
8. Broughton, vol i, pp.15. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, vi.69.3,81.1-82.1
9. Livy, The History of Rome, 3.7.6-7

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Camerinus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 590.