Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus

The Roman politician Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus dressed in 429 BC. The office of consul in the early Roman Republic .

Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus belonged to the gens of the Lucretier - more precisely to the patrician branch of the Lucretii Tricipitini . He was the father of Publius Lucretius Tricipitinus , who lived in 419 and 417 BC. Chr. Military tribune with consular power was.

Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus was born in 429 BC. Together with Lucius Sergius Fidenas elected consul of the Roman Republic for one year . Lucius Sergius Fidenas filled this office for the second time. The territory of Rome was probably hit by a severe drought during the tenure of the two consuls and was also exposed to invasions by Veii . A specially established commission under Lucius Sergius Fidenas, Quintus Servilius and Mamercus Aemilius was summoned to Fidenae to investigate the complicity of some of its inhabitants with the Etruscans . In addition, the commission was able to prove the organization of the attacks from Fidenae. Part of the population of Fidenaes was therefore punished in 428 BC. Moved to Ostia Antica .

literature

Christian Müller: Lucretius [I 9]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 470.

Individual evidence

^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC-100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Number XV, Volume 1). American Philological Association, New York 1951, pp. 71 and 73.
↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 4,30,4.
^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC-100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Number XV, Volume 1). American Philological Association, New York 1951, p. 65.

personal data
SURNAME	Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman consul
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC Chr.

[1] T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC-100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Number XV, Volume 1). American Philological Association, New York 1951, pp. 71 and 73.

[2] Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 4,30,4.

[3] T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC-100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Number XV, Volume 1). American Philological Association, New York 1951, p. 65.