Titus Herminius

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According to legendary Roman tradition, Titus Herminius Aquilinus was born in 506 BC. BC together with Spurius Larcius Roman consul . His cognomen Aquilinus is only mentioned in the fasti consulares . He is next to Lar Herminius , the consul of the year 448 BC. BC, the only historical representative of the Herminia gens .

In the fight against Lars Porsenna , the ancient historiography places Herminius as a companion next to his colleague Larcius and the general Horatius Cocles , with whom he defends the pile bridge (pons sublicius) leading over the Tiber to Rome . Likewise, Livy and Dionysius report that Herminius and Larcius took part in a battle against the Etruscans . However, the ancient historians do not agree on the timing of the fight. Dionysius also credits them with the acquisition of grain stores from the Pontine plain, about which Livy knows nothing. Both Livius and Dionysius name Herminius as a legate at the head of a cavalry squadron. He is said to have been used in the battle of Lake Regillus in 499 BC. Killed the Latin general Octavius ​​Mamilius and is said to have been fatally wounded himself when he took the armor of the defeated man. None of this information can be considered historical.

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  1. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 6 f. (unaltered reprint 1968).
  2. ↑ Livy 2,10,6f .; Dionysios 5,23,2ff .; 5.24.1; Plutarch , Poplicola 16.6.
  3. ↑ Livy 2: 11, 7-10; Dionysios 5.22.5.
  4. ↑ Dionysios 5,26,4.
  5. ↑ Cf. Livius 2,9,6; 2.34.4.
  6. ↑ Livy 2,20,8f .; Dionysios 6,12,3f; see also: T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, p. 11 (reprinted unchanged 1968).
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SURNAME Herminius, Titus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herminius Aquilinus, Titus; Aquilinus, Titus Herminius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 506 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.