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C. Servilius ( - )

Relationships: M. Plaetorius Cestius ([?]-[?]) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of C. Servilius
References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) 447 ROMA. Caput Romæ, in obverso. C. SERVILIus M F. cum sp. Melio et C. Servilio Ahala, equestris ordinis, pugnantibus. Ib. p. 241. Ar. On the obverse the head of Roma; on the reverse Sp. Melius and C. Servilius fighting on horseback. Orsini 1577, p. 241.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

In the Philosophical Transactions, N° 297. is registred an Account of the Bolton Boy (Nath. Hulme), upon whose Thumbs, Fingers and Toes, grew certain Horny Excrescencies, which fell off once a Year. He was living An. 1704, had shed them five or six several Times, and had then both his Hands armed with them: Those upon his Toes he kept under by continually cutting, that he might be able to wear Shoes. The Reverend Dr. Wroe, Warden of Manchester College, obliged me with one of these Horns, which is three Inches long. A late Author has given us the Picture of Mary Davis of Chester, with two growing upon her Head, An. 1680. (e)(e) Dr. Leigh's Hist. of Lanc. and Chesh. Tab. VII. . And in the Bibliotheca at Edinburg, I saw a remarkable Horn, and transcribed this Account of it, which is engraven upon a Silver Plate fixed thereunto. This Horn was cut (by Arthur Temple Chyrurgeon) out of the Head of Elizabeth Love, being three Inches above the Ear; before these Witnesses Andrew Temple, Tho, &c. 14 May 1671. It was growing seven Years; her Age Fifty. The Keeper of the Library told me it was nine Inches long.