Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus (the younger)

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 11.5 §3 to Servilius as well

  P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus, Caesar's colleague in the consulship of 48 BC and thus a powerful man to keep favourably disposed while Cicero awaited Caesar's pardon.

• Ad M. Brutum 2.2 §3 that madman Servilius

  Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus the younger (consul 48 and 41 BC), a consular senator who leaned toward Antony; Cicero had to endure his obstruction in the Senate while trying to honor Plancus.

• Ad Familiares 10.12 §3 a great struggle for me, on behalf of your standing, with Servilius

  P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus the younger (consul 48 BC with Caesar), who opposed awarding Plancus honors at this stage; he lost the vote when the Senate crossed to the opposing lobby (in alia omnia discessit).

• Ad Familiares 10.16 §1 Servilius, called on, postponed the question

  P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus, a senior consular asked to speak first, moved to defer the matter; Cicero, speaking after him, carried his own counter-motion unanimously, as he had done over the earlier honours for Plancus (Fam. 10.13).

• Ad Familiares 13.66 §1 M. CICERO P. SERVILIO S.

  The letter-heading. The recipient is the younger P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus (cos. 48 BC with Caesar, proconsul of Asia 46-44 BC), Cicero's fellow augur; this is one of a short cluster of recommendations Cicero addressed to him during his Asian governorship.

• Ad Familiares 13.67 §1 M. CICERO P. SERVILIO PROPR. S.

  The letter-heading; 'PROPR.' = pro praetore, the rank under which Servilius governed Asia. The recipient is the younger P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus, Cicero's fellow augur, here addressed as the provincial governor who can extend hospitality to Cicero's eastern friends.

• Ad Familiares 13.68 §1 M. TVLLIVS CICERO P. SERVILIO ISAVRICO PROCOS. CONLEGAE S. P.

  'CONLEGAE' marks the recipient as Cicero's colleague in the college of augurs; 'PROCOS.' as proconsul of Asia. Unlike the recommendation letters around it, this is a personal, political letter to the younger P. Servilius Isauricus, written soon after he reached his province (c. Sept. 46 BC).

• Ad Familiares 13.69 §1 CICERO P. SERVILIO CONLEGAE S. P.

  The letter-heading; 'CONLEGAE' addresses the younger P. Servilius Isauricus as Cicero's colleague in the college of augurs. A recommendation to him as proconsul of Asia (46-44 BC) on behalf of Cicero's freedman friend at Ephesus.

• Ad Familiares 13.70 §1 M. CICERO P. SERVILIO CONLEGAE S.

  The letter-heading; conlega ("colleague") marks the recipient as Cicero's fellow-member of the college of augurs. He is P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus the younger (consul 48 BC), then proconsul of Asia (46-44 BC); 13.70-72 form a group addressed to him there.

• Ad Familiares 13.71 §1 M. CICERO S. D. P. SERVILIO CONLEGAE.

  The letter-heading to Cicero's augural colleague (conlega) P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus the younger, proconsul of Asia (46-44 BC). S. D. = salutem dicit, "sends greeting," the standard epistolary formula.

• Ad Familiares 13.72 §1 M. CICERO P. SERVILIO CONLEGAE S.

  The letter-heading to Cicero's augural colleague (conlega) P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus the younger, proconsul of Asia (46-44 BC); the third of the three letters (13.70-72) commending friends to him in his province.

• Twelfth Philippic §5 Publius Servilius

  Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, consul of 48 BC and a vehement opponent of Antony, who had reluctantly joined the embassy and found his house in mourning; his complaint helps Cicero argue for abandoning it.

• Seventh Philippic §27 I agree with Publius Servilius

  P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus (the younger), consul-designate for 41 BC; the standard closing formula by which Cicero attaches his vote to that of a senior colleague who had spoken before him.

• Ninth Philippic §3 Publius Servilius

  P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus, consul of 48 BC, who proposed honouring Sulpicius with a public tomb but not a statue, holding that only an envoy slain by the sword deserved a statue. Cicero's whole speech answers him.