Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus (consul 448 BC)

Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus
Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus
Gaius Julius Iulus
Personal details
Born	Unknown; Ancient Rome
Died	Unknown; Ancient Rome

Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus was consul of the Roman Republic in 448 BC with Lars Herminius Aquilinus. Little is known about his life.

Family background

Caeliomontanus belonged to the

Opiter Verginius Tricostus in 502, in the early years of the Roman Republic.^[2] The patrician Verginii soon separated in two branches, one living on the Esquiline Hill, the other on the Caelian Hill, thus taking the additional cognomen Esquilinus and Caeliomontanus.^[3]

The Fasti Capitolini are missing between 449 and 423, so Caeliomontanus' filiation has not been preserved.^[4] Friedrich Münzer and Hans Georg Gundel thought he was the son of Spurius Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus, consul in 456, but it is improbable that he was consul just 8 years before his son.^[5] Robert Maxwell Ogilvie suggested instead Aulus Verginius, consul in 469, as his father, with a more credible 21 years gap between them.^[6]

Career

Caeliomontanus' career is completely unknown apart from his consulship. He was elected consul posterior in

Centuriate Assembly elected Aquilinus before Caeliomontanus.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Their year of office was relatively peaceful, as neither consul took sides during the

plebeians during the first two centuries of the Republic. Livy adds that they did not wage any military campaign.^[10]

References

^ Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 8.
^ Ogilvie, Commentary, p. 516.
^ Degrassi, Fasti, pp. 32, 33.
^ Hans Georg Gundel, PW, second series, vol. 16, pp. 1519, 1530.
^ Ogilvie, Commentary, pp. 515, 516.
^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, xi. 51.
^ Taylor & Broughton, "The Order of the Two Consuls' Names", p. 6.
^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 50.
^ Livy, iii. 65.

Bibliography

Ancient sources

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia (English translation on LacusCurtius).
Ab Urbe Condita (English translation by Rev. Canon Roberts on Wikisource
).

Modern sources

T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association, 1951–1952.
Attilio Degrassi, Fasti Capitolini recensuit, praefatus est, indicibus instruxit Atilius Degrassi, Turin, 1954.
Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965.
Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft
(abbreviated PW), J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 1894–1980.
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
, 19 (1949), pp. 3–14.

Political offices
Preceded by Marcus Horatius Barbatus	Consul of the Roman Republic 448 BC with Lars Herminius Aquilinus	Succeeded by Gaius Julius Iulus

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

[2] Broughton, vol. I, p. 8.

[3] Ogilvie, Commentary, p. 516.

[4] Degrassi, Fasti, pp. 32, 33.

[5] Hans Georg Gundel, PW, second series, vol. 16, pp. 1519, 1530.

[6] Ogilvie, Commentary, pp. 515, 516.

[Dionysius-11.51-7] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, xi. 51.

[8] Taylor & Broughton, "The Order of the Two Consuls' Names", p. 6.

[9] Broughton, vol. I, p. 50.

[10] Livy, iii. 65.

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