Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus (Consul 462 BC)

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Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus is a figure of the early Roman Republic and presumed consul of the year 462 BC. His colleague was Lucius Lucretius Tricipitinus .

His prenomen has been handed down uniformly, his gentile name, however, in different variants: Vetusius ( Livius III 8, 2 with incomplete Rhotazism ; from it Cassiodorus ), Οὐτούριος ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus XI 81). Diodorus calls him completely Τίτος Οὐετούριος Κιχωρῖνος (the cognomen with handwritten variants). The name does not appear in the Fasti Capitolini .

His name and the time circumstances suggest that he was the son of the consul of the same name in 494 BC. Was, see Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus (consul 494 BC) . This is also proven by finds from inscriptions. GP Pighi and Bartolomeo Borghesi suspected his grandfather to be Publius Veturius Geminus Cicurinus , the consul of the year 499 BC. BC, which is however unlikely.

As consul, Veturius fought successfully against the Volscians and Aequers and celebrated a triumphal procession on his return to Rome .

Individual evidence

  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. By the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), pp. 35f
  2. ↑ Livius III 8, 4 f. 11. Dionysios IX 69, 1 ff.
  3. ↑ Livius III 10, 4. Dionysius IX 71.

literature

  • Veturius 18) in: RE VIII A, 2nd column 1893 f.
personal data
SURNAME Veturius Geminus Cicurinus, Titus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vetusius, Titus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 462 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 500 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.