Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus

Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus
Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus
Consul of the Roman Republic
	In office; 1 September 486 BC [1] – 29 August 485 BC Serving with Spurius Cassius Viscellinus
Preceded by	Titus Sicinius Sabinus, Gaius Aquillius Tuscus
Succeeded by	Servius Cornelius Maluginensis Cossus, Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 485 and 482 BC)
Personal details
Born	Unknown; Ancient Rome
Died	Unknown; Ancient Rome

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 (suffect 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.[2][3] Verginius marched against the Aequi[4] and opposed the agrarian law of his colleague Cassius.[5][6]

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.[7]

Notes

Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
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.
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.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia, VIII. 68
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, ii. 41.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 8.68, 9.51.
Livy, 2.41

References

(in French) Livy, Histoire romaine, Livre II, 41 sur le site de l'Université de Louvain ;
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquités romaines, Livre VIII, 63-80 sur le site LacusCurtius.

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

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[1] Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[4] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia, VIII. 68

[5] Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, ii. 41.

[6] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 8.68, 9.51.

[7] Livy, 2.41