Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus (consul 469 BC)
Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus | |
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Quintus Servilius Priscus Structus (consul 468 BC) | |
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| Died | Unknown Ancient Rome |
Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus was a Roman politician active in the fifth century BC and was consul in 469 BC.
Family
He was the son of
Biography
In 469 BC, he was consul with Titus Numicius Priscus as his colleague. At the beginning of his term, they each led separate campaigns against the Aequi and the Volsci who had both been setting fire to farmlands around Rome. Tricostus attacked the Aequi but faced difficulties, whereas Priscus fought the Volsci and captured Caenon, the port of Antium, which was the capital of the Volsci. He regrouped with Priscus in order to pillage the Sabine countryside in retaliation for a raid by the Sabines on Roman territory.[2][3][4]
Two years later, in 467 BC, after having taken
He is possibly the same person as the legate who served under the consul Titus Romilius Rocus Vaticanus against the Aequi in 455 BC.[10][11]
Notes
- ^ Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
- ^ a b Broughton 1951, p. 31
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus IX, 56
- ^ Livy II, 63
- ^ Livy III, 1.6
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus IX, 59.2
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 32
- ^ Livy III, 1.2-5
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus IX, 59.1-3
- ^ Dionysius, x, 49.2
- ^ Broughton, vol i, pp.42
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