Servilia (wife of Lucullus)

There is some debate as to who her father was. Older authors who follow Plutarch deem her to be the daughter of Quintus Servilius Caepio and Livia, thus the younger full sister of Servilia Major and Gnaeus Servilius Caepio{{Cite book|title=Ancient society|publisher=Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven|year=1984|location=Université catholique de Louvain|pages=98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ksk-AQAAIAAJ&q=%22and+would+leave+the+praenomen+Gnaeus+%28the+only+other+praenomen+attested+for+the+Servilii+Caepiones%29%22|volume=15–18}} and half-sister to Cato the Younger and Porcia. Some modern historians such as Susan Treggiari tend to believe that she was actually the daughter of Gnaeus Servilius Caepio, thus a niece of Cato; but this is not universally accepted, Judith P. Hallett has argued that is implausible that the younger Caepio (who was born in 98 BC) would have married so young and sired a daughter fast enough that she would be old enough to marry Lucullus in 66 BC.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Esn_AwAAQBAJ&q=servilia+lucullus+niece+sister&pg=PA51|title=Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family|pages=51|isbn=9781400855322|last1=Hallett|first1=Judith P.|date=14 July 2014}}

The historian Edward Courtney identified her as the Servilia who was married to Quintus Lutatius Catulus, but that woman was more likely her aunt Servilia.{{Cite book|title=Marcus Tullius Cicero: Speeches on Behalf of Marcus Fonteius and Marcus Aemilius Scaurus: Translated with Introduction and Commentary|last=Dyck|first=Andrew R.|publisher=OUP Oxford|year=2012|isbn=9780199590056|pages=98|edition=illustrated|series=Clarendon Ancient History Series}}

Lucullus married her on his return from the Third Mithridatic War around 66 BC, after divorcing his first wife Claudia.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BqTDwAAQBAJ&q=Lucullus+servilia&pg=PA44|title=Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic|isbn=9780190869038|last1=Drogula|first1=Fred K.|date=24 April 2019}} Servilia bore him a son whose name is uncertain. She was unfaithful to her husband with his enemy Gaius Memmius.{{Cite book|title=Servilia and her Family|last=Treggiari|first=Susan|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|isbn=9780192564641|pages=96}} Lucullus, after putting up with her conduct for some time out of regard to Cato the Younger at length divorced her. On the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC, she accompanied Cato, with her child, to Sicily, and thence to the Roman province Asia. Cato left her behind in Rhodes, while he went to join Pompey.

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In Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series Servilia is called "Servililla" or just "Lilla" and is depicted as having been married to her cousin Drusus before marrying Lucullus, it is stated that Drusus divorced her for infidelity.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRPyAgAAQBAJ&q=%22drusus+nero%22+servililla&pg=PT4151|title = Masters of Rome Collection Books I - V: First Man in Rome, the Grass Crown, Fortune's Favourites, Caesar's Women, Caesar|isbn = 9781781859391|last1 = McCullough|first1 = Colleen|date = March 2014}}

• Servilia gens
• Women in ancient Rome

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• Plutarch, "The Life of Lucullus", 38; "The Life of Cato the Younger", 24, 54.
• Wilhelm Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. iv, p. 174.

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