Veturius Geminus Cicurinus (Consul 499 BC)

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Publius (according to other sources Gaius, Lucius ) Veturius Geminus Cicurinus is a figure of the early Roman Republic and presumed consul of the year 499 BC. BC, together with Titus Aebutius Helva .

His name is passed down most completely from Dionysius : Πόπλιος Οὐετούριος Γεμῖνος . Livius reports C. Vetusius with a different prenomen, without cognomen and with incomplete Rhotazism , while Cassiodor gives L. Vetusius .

His cognomen Geminus ("twin") refers to his (presumed) twin brother Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus , who was born in 494 BC. Was consul.

The following message is also associated with him: Plutarch reports that a Πούπλιος Οὐετούριος together with Μινούκιος Μᾶρκος ( Marcus Minucius Augurinus ?) In the first year of the Republic in 509 BC. Was appointed quaestor by the consul Publius Valerius Poplicola . This is regarded as an invention, but also as an indication of the importance of the gens Veturia in the early republic.

From the consulate of Veturius Geminus Cicurinus, Livy reports the siege of the city of Fidenae , the capture of the city of Crustumeria and the defection of the city of Praeneste from the Latins in Rome. Dionysius also reports that Veturius took Fidenae.

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. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), pp. 10f
  2. Dionysios V 58, 1st variants: γεμίνιος, γομῖνος
  3. ^ Livy II 19, 1
  4. Plutarch Popl. 12, 3
  5. ^ Livy II 19, 2
  6. Dionysios V 58, 1

literature

  • Veturius 16) in: RE VIII A, 2nd column 1892 f.