He also served as master of the horse (magister equitum), or deputy, to the dictator Quintus Servilius Priscus Fidenas in 418 BC, when the latter had been appointed to wage war against the Aequi.
Ancient sources present confused and conflicting accounts of the identity of Servilius and the offices he held.
In the tradition of the Fasti Capitolini, a list of Roman magistrates compiled during the rule of emperor Augustus, one single person, Servilius Axilla, held the offices of consul in 427 BC, consular tribune in 419–417 and magister equitum in 418.
Weber thought that Livy preserved a more genuine tradition and that the official Fasti had been tampered with, but Mommsen and Münzer, followed by Broughton, have preferred to follow the evidence of the Fasti, identifying all of the recorded officeholders as one person and explaining variations in the narrative as the result of interpolation by annalists.
Mommsen and Münzer partly explained the problem by again postulating annalistic interpolations,[3] but Weber here argues that Structus, and not Axilla or Ahala, is more likely to be correct.