Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus was a
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who served as
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From his filiation, it appears likely that he was the son of
Opiter Verginius Tricostus (consul 502 BC) and the brother of
Titus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus
Titus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus (died 463 BC), was consul of the Roman Republic in 479 BC. He held the office with Caeso Fabius Vibulanus.
According to Livy, he was assigned the war with the Veientes, but because of his temerity his army wa ...
(consul 479 BC),
Opiter Verginius Tricostus Esquilinus (suffect consul 478 BC), and
Aulus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus
Aulus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus was a Roman consul in 476 BC.Livy, Titus Livius, ''Ab Urbe Condita (book), Ab Urbe Condita'', ii. 51.
Following their defeat of the Roman army at the Battle of the Cremera in 477 BC, the Veii, Veientes marched ...
(consul 476 BC).
Consulship
In 486 BC Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus and
Spurius Cassius Vecellinus
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were elected Consul. Verginius marched against the
Aequi
300px, Location of the Aequi (Equi) in central Italy, 5th century BC.
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and opposed the agrarian law of his colleague
Cassius.
Cassius was accused of trying to create support in the populace and allies to seek kingship. In a partisan struggle, Verginius sided with the Roman patricians, and Cassius the Roman plebeians. Upon retirement from office, Cassius was condemned and put to death.
[Livy, 2.41]
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Livy
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( grc, Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς,
; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary sty ...
,
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5th-century BC Roman consuls
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