Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus | |
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Consul of the Roman Republic | |
In office 1 August 453 BC [1] –31 July 452 BC | |
Preceded by | Aulus Aternius Varus,Spurius Tarpeius Montanus Capitolinus |
Succeeded by | Publius Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus,Titus Menenius Lanatus (consul 452 BC) |
First College of Decemvirs | |
In office 451 BC –450 BC | |
Preceded by | Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus,Sextus Quinctilius Varus |
Succeeded by | Second College of Decemvirs |
Personal details | |
Born | Unknown Ancient Rome |
Died | 453 [2] Ancient Rome |
Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC,consul in 453 BC and decemvir in 451 BC.
He was named Publius Curiatius by Livy,but named Publius Horatius by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Diodorus Siculus calls him only Trigeminus. [3] He could have been part of the gens Horatii rather than the Curiatii ,two gentes that had opposed each other during the Roman monarchy in the 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.
In 453 BC,he was consul with Sextus Quinctilius Varus. [4] Rome was ravaged in that year by a famine and an epidemic,which killed animals as well as people. It is thought to have been typhus,with the epidemic continuing on for ten or more years. [5] His colleague,Varus,and Furius Medullinus Fusus,the consul suffect who replaced him,both died of the disease that same year. [4]
In 451 BC,he was part of the First Decemvirate which wrote the ten first tables of the Law of the Twelve Tables. [6] [7] [8]
Year 453 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time,it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quinctilius and Trigeminus. The denomination 453 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period,when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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