Opiter Verginius Tricostus

Opiter Verginius Tricostus
Opiter Verginius Tricostus
Consulof theRoman Republic
	In office; 1 September 502 BC – 29 August 501 BC Serving withSpurius Cassius Vecellinus
Preceded by	Agrippa Menenius Lanatus,Publius Postumius Tubertus
Succeeded by	Postumus Cominius Auruncus,Titus Larcius
Personal details
Born	Unknown; Ancient Rome
Died	486 BC?; Ancient Rome
Children	Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus,Titus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus,Opiter Verginius Tricostus Esquilinus (consul 478 BC),Aulus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus

Opiter Verginius Tricostusserved asconsulof the earlyRoman Republicin 502 BC, withSpurius Cassius Vecellinus.^[2]He was the first from the powerfulVerginiafamily to obtain the consulship.

Together with his colleagueSpurius Cassius Vecellinus,Verginius Tricostusfoughtagainst theAurunci,and tookPometia.^[3]^[4]^[5]Livyalso says that the consuls celebrated a triumph for their victory, however theFasti Triumphalesrecord only one triumph, by Cassius.^[6]

He is listed in an incomplete text byFestusas numbering among the nine patricians burned in 486 BC for conspiring with his former consular colleague Cassius. Considering that this would have occurred during Opiter's son, Proculus, consulship, this narrative remains highly uncertain.^[7]^[8]^[9]

The filiation of a number of consular men in the following generation suggests they were Opiter Verginius' sons. They are:Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus(consul 486 BC),Titus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus(consul 479 BC),Opiter Verginius Tricostus Esquilinus (consul 478 BC)andAulus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus(consul 476 BC).

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^Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
^Alan Edouard Samuel (1972).Greek and Roman Chronology: Calendars and Years in Classical Antiquity.C.H.Beck. pp. 256–.ISBN 978-3-406-03348-3.
^Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita,ii. 17.
^Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Romaike Archaiologia,v. 49.
^T. Robert S. Broughton,The Magistrates of the Roman Republic(1952).
^Johann Georg Baiter; Carlo Fèa (1837).Fasti consulares triumphalesque romanorum.Typis Orellii, Fuesslini et soc. pp. 231–.
^Festus180 L
^Valerius Maximus,vi, 6.3.2
^Broughton, vol i, pp.21

Political offices
Preceded by Agrippa Menenius LanatusandPublius Postumius Tubertus	Consulof theRoman Republic withSpurius Cassius Vecellinus 502 BC	Succeeded by Postumius Cominius AuruncusandTitus Lartius Flavus

[1] Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.

[Samuel1972-2] Alan Edouard Samuel (1972).Greek and Roman Chronology: Calendars and Years in Classical Antiquity.C.H.Beck. pp. 256–.ISBN 978-3-406-03348-3.

[3] Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita,ii. 17.

[4] Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Romaike Archaiologia,v. 49.

[5] T. Robert S. Broughton,The Magistrates of the Roman Republic(1952).

[BaiterFèa1837-6] Johann Georg Baiter; Carlo Fèa (1837).Fasti consulares triumphalesque romanorum.Typis Orellii, Fuesslini et soc. pp. 231–.

[7] Festus180 L

[8] Valerius Maximus,vi, 6.3.2

[9] Broughton, vol i, pp.21

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