Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC, consul in 453 BC, and Decemviri, decemvir in 451 BC.

Family

He was named ''Publius Curiatius'' by Livy, but ''Publius Horatius'' by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, which nevertheless confirms Livy's as fact. Diodorus Siculus himself only gives ''Trigeminus''. He could have been part of the ''gens Horatia gens, Horatii'' and not in that of the ''Curiatia gens, Curiatii'', two ''gentes'' that had opposed each other during the Roman monarchy in the Horatii and Curiatii, fight of the Horatii and the Curiatii. If he was part of the ''gens Curiatii'', he was the only member of the family to become consul.

Biography

Consulship

In 453 BC, he was consul with Sextus Quinctilius. Rome was ravaged this year by a famine and an epidemic, which killed animals as well as people. It is thought to have been typhus, an epidemic that raged on for ten or more years. His colleague, Varus, and the consul suffect that replaced him both caught the disease that same year.

''Decemvirate''

In 451 BC, he was part of the Decemviri, First Decemvirate which wrote the ten first tables of the Law of the Twelve Tables.Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica'', XII. 9

References

Bibliography

Ancient bibliography

* Livy, ''Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Livy), Ab urbe condita'' * Diodorus Siculus,
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* Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
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Modern bibliography

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