| Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus | |
| Birth Date: | Unknown |
| Birth Place: | Ancient Rome |
| Death Date: | Unknown |
| Death Place: | Ancient Rome |
| Office: | Consul of the Roman Republic |
| Term Start: | 1 August 453 BC [1] |
| Term End: | 31 July 452 BC |
| Alongside: | Sextus Quinctilius Varus, Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus (consul 464 BC) |
| Predecessor: | Aulus Aternius Varus, Spurius Tarpeius Montanus Capitolinus |
| Successor: | Publius Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus, Titus Menenius Lanatus (consul 452 BC) |
| Office2: | First College of Decemvirs |
| Term Start2: | 451 BC |
| Term End2: | 450 BC |
| Alongside2: | Appius Claudius Crassus, Titus Genucius Augurinus, Gaius Julius Iulus (consul 482 BC), Aulus Manlius Vulso, Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus (consul 461 BC), Publius Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus, Titus Romilius Rocus Vaticanus and Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (consul 466 BC) |
| Successor2: | Second College of Decemvirs |
| Predecessor2: | Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus, Sextus Quinctilius Varus |
Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC, consul in 453 BC and decemvir in 451 BC.
He was named Publius Curiatius by Livy, but named Publius Horatius by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Diodorus Siculus calls him only Trigeminus. He could have been part of the gens Horatii rather than the Curiatii, two gentes that had opposed each other during the Roman monarchy in the fight of the Horatii and the Curiatii.
If he was part of the gens Curiatii, he was the only member of the family to become consul.
In 453 BC, he was consul with Sextus Quinctilius Varus. Rome was ravaged in that year by a famine and an epidemic, which killed animals as well as people. It is thought to have been typhus, with the epidemic continuing on for ten or more years.[2] His colleague, Varus, and Furius Medullinus Fusus, the consul suffect who replaced him, both died of the disease that same year.
In 451 BC, he was part of the First Decemvirate which wrote the ten first tables of the Law of the Twelve Tables.[3] [4] [5]