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Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus

c. 134–44 BCE · 1st century BCE

Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus was a Roman general and statesman, consul in 79 BCE. As proconsul of Cilicia from 78 to 74 BCE he fought the pirates of the southern Anatolian coast, captured their strongholds in Lycia, including Phaselis and Olympus, and subdued the Isaurians, from whom he took his surname. He celebrated a triumph and lived to an old age as a senior senator.

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