Opiter Verginius Tricostus

Opiter Verginius Tricostus († probably 486 BC) was together with Spurius Cassius Vecellinus in 502 BC. According to legendary tradition, consul of the early Roman Republic . During the war against the Aurunker he is said to have taken the city of Pometia , for which he was given the honor of a triumphal procession . Another tradition has him take the Latin city of Cameria .

Probably 486 BC Verginius is said to have been a military tribune in the war against the Volscians . After his death in battle, his body was cremated along with those of eight other tribunes in Rome.

Individual evidence

^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), p. 8
↑ Livy 2, 17 .
^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus 5:49 .

literature

Marieluise Deißmann-Merten : Verginius I. 10. In: Der Kleine Pauly 5 (1975), Sp. 1202-1203.

personal data
SURNAME	Verginius Tricostus, Opiter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tricostus, Opiter Verginius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman consul 502 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	around 486 BC Chr.

[1] T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), p. 8

[2] Livy 2, 17 .

[3] Dionysius of Halicarnassus 5:49 .