Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus

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Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus was a Roman statesman who served as Consul.

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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 (consul 479 BC), Opiter Verginius Tricostus Esquilinus (suffect consul 478 BC), and Aulus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus (consul 476 BC).

Consulship

In 486 BC Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus and Spurius Cassius Vecellinus were elected Consul. [1] [2] Verginius marched against the Aequi [3] and opposed the agrarian law of his colleague Cassius. [4] [5]

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. [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Taylor, Brian (2008). The rise of the Romans: the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, a chronology: volume one, 753BC-146BC (1. publ. in the UK. ed.). Chalford: Spellmount. p. 65. ISBN   9781862273481.
  2. ↑ Diodorus (2010). Peter Green (ed.). The Persian wars to the fall of Athens: books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE) (1st ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 9. ISBN   9780292719392.
  3. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia, VIII. 68
  4. ↑ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita , ii. 41.
  5. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 8.68, 9.51.
  6. ↑ Livy, 2.41

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Preceded by Consul of the Roman Republic
with Spurius Cassius Vecellinus III
486 BC		Succeeded by
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