Postumus Cominius Auruncus
Postumus Cominius Auruncus | |
|---|---|
| Consulof theRoman Republic | |
| In office [1]1 September 501 BC – 29 August 500 BC Serving withTitus Larcius | |
| Preceded by | Opiter Verginius Tricostus (consul 502 BC),Spurius Cassius Vecellinus |
| Succeeded by | Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus |
| In office [1]1 September 493 BC – 29 August 492 BC Serving withSpurius Cassius Vecellinus | |
| Preceded by | Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus,Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus (consul 494 BC) |
| Succeeded by | Titus Geganius Macerinus,Publius Minucius Augurinus |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Unknown Ancient Rome |
| Died | 486 BC Ancient Rome |
Postumus Cominius Auruncuswas a two-timeconsulof the earlyRoman Republic.
In 501 BC, Cominius was consul withTitus Larcius,whoLivysays was appointed as the firstdictatorof Rome.[2][3]Other sources indicate the beginnings of hostilities with theLatinsand a conspiracy amongslavesduring their term.[4][5][3]
As the consuls of 493 BC, Cominius andSpurius Cassius Vecellinuswere elected towards the end of theFirst secessio plebis in 494 BC.[6]They also conducted acensus.[7][8]
Cominius achieved amilitary victoryagainst theVolsci.He initially defeated a force from the town ofAntium,then took the towns ofLongula(to the north of Antium) andPollusca.He laid siege to the town ofCorioliand despite being attacked by a second force of Volsci from Antium, he achieved victory through the distinguished actions ofGaius Marcius Coriolanus,and captured Corioli.[9][10][11][12][13]
In 488, he was among the envoys(legati),all of consular rank, sent to Coriolanus.[14][15]
A puzzling and textually incomplete passage inFestus[16][17]lists Cominius among several men who were burned publicly near theCircus Maximusin 486 BC.Valerius Maximussays that atribune of the plebsburned nine colleagues for conspiring withSpurius Cassius Vecellinus,a consul in this year who plotted to make himself king.[18][19]Since the plebeian tribunes numbered ten only much later, and since the listed names indicate that the men were of consular rank andpatricianstatus, this incident during theVolscian Warsremains mysterious.[20]
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[edit]- ^abOgilvie, Robert Maxwell (1965).Commentary on Livy,books 1–5.Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 404, 405.
- ^Livy 2.18.2–8
- ^abBroughton 1986,p. 9.
- ^Dionysius of Halicarnassus5.50.1–51.3
- ^Zonaras7.13
- ^Livy,Ab urbe condita,2.33
- ^Dionysius 6.96.1
- ^Broughton 1986,pp. 14–15.
- ^Livy 2.33.4–9
- ^Dionysius 6.91.1–94.2
- ^Valerius Maximus4.3.4
- ^Plutarch,Coriolanus8.1–11.1
- ^Broughton 1986,p. 15.
- ^Dionysius 8.22.4–5
- ^Broughton 1986,p. 19.
- ^Festus, 180 in the edition of Lindsay
- ^Broughton 1986,p. 21.
- ^Valerius Maximus 6.3.2
- ^Broughton 1986,pp. 20–21.
- ^Broughton 1986,p. 21, citing alsoCassius Diofrg. 22 and Zonaras 7.17..
- Broughton, T.R.S.(1986) [1951].The Magistrates of the Roman Republic.Vol. 1. American Philological Association.