Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus

Titus Virginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus was a Roman statesman who served as Consul.

Consulship and military campaigns

Titus Verginius Tricostus Caelimontanus was the Roman consul in 496 BC, along with Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis.^[1][2] Livy reported that it was the year of the Battle of Lake Regillus; Aulus Postumius Albus had abdicated his consulship and was named dictator.^[2] Dionysius of Halicarnassus reported that Titus Virginius had commanded a corps under the orders of the dictator at the Battle of Lake Regillus.^[3]

Notes

1. T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 B.C. – 100 B.C. Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland/Ohio 1951. Unveränderter Nachdruck 1968. (= Philological Monographs. Hrsg. von der American Philological Association. Bd. 15, Teil 1), S. 12
2. Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.21
3. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman antiquities, 6.2-14

References

• (French) Tite-Live, Histoire romaine, Livre II, 21 sur le site de l'Université de Louvain ;
• Denys d'Halicarnasse, Antiquités romaines, Livre VI, 1-21 sur le site LacusCurtius.