Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus (consul 496 BC)

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

Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office [1] 1 September 496 BC – 29 August 495 BC Serving with Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis
Preceded by	Aulus Sempronius Atratinus, Marcus Minucius Augurinus
Succeeded by	Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, Publius Servilius Priscus Structus
Personal details
Born	Unknown Ancient Rome
Died	486 BC? Ancient Rome

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, is listed by Festus, who in conjecture with the writings of Valerius Maximus, makes 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 Viscellinus.[5][6][7]

Notes

1. Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
2. T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 B.C. – 100 B.C. Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland/Ohio 1951. Unveränderter Nachdruck 1968. (= Philological Monographs. Hrsg. von der American Philological Association. Bd. 15, Teil 1), S. 12
3. Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.21
4. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman antiquities, 6.2-14
5. Festus 180 L
6. Valerius Maximus, vi. 3.2
7. Broughton, vol i, pp.21 (see note 1)

References

• (in French) Tite-Live, Histoire romaine, Livre II, 21 sur le site de l'Université de Louvain ;
• Denys d'Halicarnasse, Antiquités romaines, Livre VI, 1-21 sur le site LacusCurtius.