Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus

Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus
Consul of the Roman Republic
Reign 486 BC

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

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 (consul 478 BC) and Aulus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus (consul 476 BC).

Consulship

In 486 BC Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus and Spurius Cassius Viscellinus were elected Consul.[1][2] Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus marched against Aequi[3] and opposed the agrarian law of his colleague Vecellinus.[4][5] Vecellinus was accused of trying to create support in the populace and allies to seek kingship. Upon retirement from office, Cassius Spurius Vecellinus 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. ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780292719392.
  3. Denys d'Halicarnasse, Antiquités romaines, Livre VIII, 68
  4. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, ii. 41.
  5. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia, viii. 68, ix. 51.
  6. Tite-Live, Histoire romaine, Livre II, 41

References

Preceded by
Titus Sicinius Sabinus and Gaius Aquillius Tuscus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Spurius Cassius Viscellinus
486 BC
Succeeded by
Servius Cornelius Maluginensis Cossus and Quintus Fabius Vibulanus