VERG0343 L. Verginius (15) L. f. Opet. n. Tricostus Esquilinus

Status

  • Patrician

Relationships

son of
L. Verginius (14) Tricostus (cos.? 435) (RE)
father of
L. Verginius (16) Tricostus (son of L. Verginius (15) L. f. Opet. n. Tricostus Esquilinus (tr. mil. c. p. 402)) (RE)

Career

  • Tribunus Militum Consulari Potestate 402 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The names in Fast. Cap. are preserved as follows: [C. Se]rvilius P. f. Q. n. Aha[la III]; [Q.] Servilius Q. f. P. n. Fiden[as]; [L. Ve]rginius L. f. Opetr. n. Tricost. Esqui[lin.]; the rest entire as above. Diod. omits the name of Q. Servilius. Manlius appears as {Gr} in Diod., who has {Gr} (in P) for M'. Sergius. The praenomen M. in Livy is corrected to M'. as in Fast. Cap. The two additional names in Diod., {Gr} and {Gr} (in F), are apocryphal. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 5.8.1; Diod. 14.38.1; Fast. Cap. (see note 1); Chr. 354 (Structo III et Cornuto); Degrassi 28f., 98, 382f. When Sergius at Veii was defeated by Veientanes and Faliscans because his enemy, Verginius, refused him assistance, the Senate with Ahala's aid compelled the abdication of the college and the entrance of new Military Tribunes into office on October first (Liv. 5.8-9, and 11-12; cf. Diod. 14.43.5). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Münzer, quoted by Gundel in RE, holds that his trial and fine by the tribunes of the plebs in 401 (see MRR 1.84; Ogilvie, Comm. Liv 644, 649) practically ended the importance of the patrician line, although there are two later appearances of patrician Verginii, one in 389 (MRR 1.96) and the other perhaps in 373 (MRR 1.110, note 1). This would make the identification of no. 15 with the Tr. Mil. c. p. of 389 less probable (see MRR 1.96 and 98, note 3). No numeral suggesting iteration is preserved. (Broughton MRR III)