Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus (consul 496 BC) explained

Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus
Birth Date:Unknown
Birth Place:Ancient Rome
Death Date:486 BC?
Death Place:Ancient Rome
Office:Consul of the Roman Republic
Term Start:[1] 1 September 496 BC
Term End:29 August 495 BC
Alongside:Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis
Predecessor:Aulus Sempronius Atratinus, Marcus Minucius Augurinus
Successor:Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, Publius Servilius Priscus Structus

Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus was a Roman statesman who served as Consul in 496 BC. He was probably the (older) brother of Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus, consul in 494 BC.

Consulship and military campaigns

Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus was the Roman consul in 496 BC, along with Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis.[2] [3] Livy reported that it was the year of the Battle of Lake Regillus; Aulus Postumius Albus had abdicated his consulship and was named dictator.[3] Dionysius of Halicarnassus reported that Titus Virginius had commanded a corps under the orders of the dictator at the Battle of Lake Regillus.[4]

Events of 486 BC

Titus, or possibly his brother Aulus, was listed by Festus, who in conjecture with the writings of Valerius Maximus, made it possible that Verginius was one of the military tribunes in 486 BC who was burned at the Circus Maximus by Publius Mucius Scaevola for conspiring with the consul Spurius Cassius Vecellinus.[5] [6] [7]

References

Notes and References

  1. Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
  2. [Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton|T. Robert S. Broughton]
  3. [Livy]
  4. [Dionysius of Halicarnassus]
  5. [Festus (historian)|Festus]
  6. [Valerius Maximus]
  7. Broughton, vol i, pp.21 (see note 1)