whose full name, as we learn from an inscription, was C. JULIUSSERVILIUSURSUSSERVIANUS, was the brother-in-law of Hadrian, having married his
sister Domitia Paulina. This marriage took place before the accession of Trajan to the empire;
and Servianus was so jealous of the favour of his brother-in-law with Trajan, that he
attempted to stop him when he was hastening to Trajan in Germany to announce the death of
Nerva in A. D. 96. Servianus afterwards became reconciled to Hadrian,
and appears to have lived on good terms with him during the reign of Trajan. By this emperor
lie was twice raised to the consulship, as we see from inscriptions, once in A. D. 107, and again in 111. It was also during the reign of Trajan that he married
his daughter to Fuscus Salinator, on which occasion Pliny wrote him a letter of
congratulation. (Plin. Ep. 6.26.) Hadrian, on his accession in
A. D. 117, appeared to have quite forgotten and forgiven the former
enmity of Servianus, for lie treated him with distinguished honour, raised him to the
consulship for the third time in A. D. 134, and gave him hopes of
succeeding to the empire. But when he resolved to appoint L. Commodus Verus his successor, and
made him Caesar in A. D. 136, he put Servianus and his grandson
Fuscus to death, fearing that they might aspire to the throne. Servianus was then in his
ninetieth year. (Spart. Hadr. 1, 2, 8, 15, 23, 25 ;Plin. Ep. 3.17, 6.26D. C. 59.2, 17, comp. 76.7.)