After the
dethronement
Tricoloni in Arcadia (Paus viii.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
vi.
3.
)
Cisalpine Gaul among the Roman citizens and the In Livy (l. c. ) the praenomen of Triarius is erro-
Latin allies. (Liv. xlii. 4. )
neously Caius.
3. CN. THEMELLIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 2. P. VALERIUS TRIARIUS, the son of the pre-
167. (Liv. xlv. 15. )
ceding, accused M. Aemilius Scaurus, in B. C. 54,
4. Cn. TREMELLIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. first of repetundae and next of ambitus. Scaurus
160, was condemned to pay a fine on account of was defended on both occasions by Cicero. (Ascon.
his having insulted the pontifex maximus M. Aemi- in Scaur. p. 19; Cie. pro Scaur. 1, 2, ad Att. iv.
lius Lepidus. (Liv. Epit. 47. )
16. § 8, iv. 17. & 2, ad Q. Fr. iii. 2. § 3). For
TREMULUS, Q. MA'RCIUS, a plebeian, details, see SCAURUS, p. 737, b.
was twice consul with the patrician P. Cornelius 3. C. Valerius TRIARIUS, perhaps a brother
Arvina, the first time in B. c. 306, and the second of No. 2, was a friend of Cicero, who introduces
time in B. c. 288. In his first consulship Tremulus him as one of the speakers in his dialogue De Fini-
carried on wars against the Hernici and Anagnini, bus (i. 5), and praises his oratory in his Brutus
whom he conquered with ease, and then marched (c. 76). His sister Valeria Paula divorced her
to the assistance of his colleague in Samnium. On husband in B. G 50, and married D. Brutus. (Cael.
Cicero Sport
that Trias
children.
ad Ath. xi.
TRIBO
according
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TRICIPTINUS.
ap. Cic. ad Fam. viii. 7. ) On the breaking out of the Theophilus, Craterus, Dorotheus and Anatolius
civil war Triarius espoused the cause of Pompey, were the most active among the commissioners. In
who appointed him and Laelius in B. c. 48 to the December A. D. 633 the Digest was promulgated as
command of the ships which were furnished by the law.
province of Asia. He was present at the battle of During the time that he was employed on the
Pharsalia, and it is said to have been by his advice Pandect, Tribonianus and the two professors, Theo-
that Pompey ordered his troops to stand still and philus and Dorotheus, were commissioned to com-
receive the charge of Caesar's soldiers, & mistake pile an Institutional work. Tribonian had at this
in the opinion of his great opponent. Triarius time the title of “ Vir magnificus, magister, et Ex-
perished in the civil wars, probably in Africa, for quaestor sacri palatii nostri” (Instit. Prooemium),
Cicero speaks in B. c. 45 of his death, and adds, and they took as their basis the Institutional work
that Triarius had left him the guardian of his of Gaius, and produced the four books of the Insti-
children. (Caes. B. C. iii. 5, 92 ; Cic. Brut. 76, tutions of Justinian, which were published in
ad Ali, xii. 28. § 3. )
November A. D. 533. The revised or second edition
TRIBONIA'NUS was a son of Macedonianuis, of the Codex was also the work of Triboninnus and
according to Suidas. There are in Suidas two four other jurists, and it was published in December
articles on Tribonianus, both of which have been A. D. 534. (Constitutio, Cordi, &c. )
supposed to refer to the same person. They are It is hardly possible to form any estimate of the
a strange medley of confusion. The first article services of Tribonianus as distinct from those of
begins by saying that Tribonianus was a Greek the other commissioners. He had the superintend-
and an atheist, and in all respects averse to the ence of the Digest, and may have taken the chief
faith of the Christians ; in fact the latter part of part in planning the work; and to his activity it
the character is an explanation of what the zealot was owing, that the large collection of juristical
from whom this fragment is taken meant by an writings was made, from which the compilers se-
atheist. He is further described as a flatterer and lected the materials for the Digest (Constitutio,
a cheat, and as persuading Justinian that he would Tanta, &c. ). He had a well-stocked library of the
not die, but would be translated to heaven in the old writers on law, As to the compilations made
flesh (Suidas, s. v. Tp6wviavós, ed. Gaisford, and by Tribonian and his associates see the article
the notes). The foolish compiler seems not to bave JUSTINIANUS.
perceived that a profession of atheism and a promise Gibbon (c. 44) has expanded the scanty and
of heaven to the emperor are hardly consistent scandalous notices of Procopius (Persica, i. 23, 24,
things.
and Anecdota, 13, 20) and Suidas after his peculiar
He is further said to have had great natural fashion. There is a life of Justinian and Tribonian
powers, and to have made acquirements inferior to by J. P. de Ludewig, entitled “ Vita Justiniani
those of no man of his age; but he was wonderfully Magni atque Theodorae nec non Triboniani, Hal.
greedy of money, and he sold justice for lucre ; | 1731. *
[G. L. )
every day he repealed some laws, and made others, TRIBU'NUS (Tp. boûvos), a very eminent
selling to each according to his wants. This is physician, a native of Palestine, and a man of
taken from Procopius (Persica, i. 24). He lived great piety and benevolence. He went to Persia,
many years in honour, and died a natural death, where he attended on the king, Cosra (or Chos-
having suffered no ill from any one, for he was roës) I. , and returned home laden with mag-
cunning, and pleasant in his manners, and he threw nificent presents, probably A. D. 531. When this
a shade over his avarice by the abundance of his king was concluding a treaty of peace with the
learning. This is the character which we have of emperor Justinian in the following year, he made
the quaestor of Justinian.
it a special request that Tribunus should be al-
The other article appears to be intended by lowed to stay with him for twelve months. This
Suidas to refer to another person of the same name, was agreed to, and when at the end of that time
whom he calls a native of Side in Pamphylia, but Tribunus was about to take leave of the Persian
he also calls him a lawyer or advocate, and a very court, the king told him to ask for any favour
learned man. He however makes him a contem- that he pleased. The noble-minded physician
porary of Justinian, for one of his works was ad-only begged for the liberation of some Roman
dressed to the emperor. The list of his works captives ; and the king released not only those
given by Suidas is a list of trifles; and no legal | whom he particularly named, but three thousand
work is enumerated among them. It may be others besides (Procop. De Bello Goth. iv. 10; Suid.
safely affirmed that Tribonian the jurist was not 8. v. Tp. 6oûvos). This anecdote will bring to the
the author of any of the works enumerated in this recollection of an English physician the very similar
second article of Suidas.
disinterestedness of Mr. Boughton at the court of
Tribonianus was successively quaestor, consul, the Great Mogul about the middle of the seven-
and master of the offices to Justinian. In A. D. teenth century, which was the origin of the power
331 he was disgraced in consequence of a popular of the East India Company in Bengal. [W. A. G. )
tumult, but he was soon restored, and remained in TRICCIANUS, DE'CIUS, a soldier of humble
office until his death in A. D. 545. His name is origin, who rose to the dignity of governor of
recorded among those who made the legal compi- Pannonia under Macrinus. He is apparently the
lations of Justinian. In A. D. 528 he was one of same person as the Triccianus, who at a subsequent
the ten commissioners appointed by Justinian to period was put to death by Elagabalus. (Dion Cass.
form his first codex: he had at that time the title Ixxviii. 15, lxxix. 4. )
(W. R. )
of “ Vir magnificus magisteria dignitate inter TRICIPTI'NUS, the name of an ancient patri.
agentes decoratus. " In A. D. 530 Tribonianus, then cian family of the Lucretia gens.
quaestor, was commissioned with sixteen others, to 1. Sp. LUCRETIUS TricIPTINUS, the father of
compile the Digest or Pandect; and Tribonianus Lucretia, whose rape by Sex. Tarquinius led to the
himself, and the four professors (antecessores) | dethronement of Tarquinius Superbus and the
4 p 3
.
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TRICIPTINUS.
TRIGEMINUS.
ll;
3
establishment of the republic. [Vol. III. p. 978, / writer informs us that Lucretius spoke against the
b. ) Triciptinus was a member of the senate under removal to Veii.
Tarquinius, and was appointed Praefectus Urbi by TRICOLO'NUS (Tperówvos), two mythical
the king, when the latter left the city to prosecute personages, one a son of Lycaon, and founder of
the war against Ardea.
After the dethronement Tricoloni in Arcadia (Paus viii. 3. § 1), and the
of the king, and before the appointment of the other one of the suitors of Hippodameia, who was
consuls, Triciptinus, in virtue of his office of Prae- conquered and killed by Oenomaus. (Paus. vi.
fectus Urbi, had the government of the city. He 21. § 7. )
(L. S. )
presided at the comitia, in which the first consuls TRICOSTUS, the name of an ancient family of
were elected, and for this purpose was probably the Virginia gens. Almost all the members of the
elected interrex by the patricians, as indeed is ex. Virginia gens belonged to this family, which be-
pressly stated by Dionysius (v. 11), and might be came so extensive that it was subdivided into
inferred from analogy.
other families bearing the names of CAELIOMONTA-
The two first consuls were L. Junius Brutus NUS, ESQUILINUS, and RUTILUS. The two former
and L. Tarquinius Collatinus, B. C. 509; and after are spoken of under their respective names, and it
the death of Brutus in battle, in the course of the therefore only remains to treat here of the Tricosti,
same year, Triciptinus was elected to supply his who had no additional name, and of the Tricosti
place ; but worn out by age, he died a few days Rutili.
after entering upon the office. (Liv. i. 58, 59, ii. 1. OPITER VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUs, consul B. C.
8 ; Dionys. iv. 76, 82, 84, v. 11, 19; Tac. Ann. vi. 502 with Sp. Cassius Viscellinus, carried on war
Cic. de Rep. ii. 31. )
against the Aurunci and took Pometia, in conse-
2. T. LUCRETIUS T. F. TRICIPTINUS, consul in quence of which he and his colleague obtained a
B. C. 508 with P. Valerius Publicola, in which triumph. (Liv. j. 17; Dionys. v. 49. )
year he fought against the Etruscans, who had 2. OPITER VIRGINIUS (Tricostus), consul
attacked Rome under Porsena, and he is said by B. C. 473 with L. Aemilius Mamercus, according
Dionysius to have been wounded in the battle. to Livy (ii. 54); but other authorities give Vopis-
Dionysius, however, places the invasion of Porsena cus Julius Julus in place of Virginius. (JULUS,
in the following year, and accordingly represents No. 3. )
Triciptinus as one of the generals of the Roman 3. L. VIRGINIUS TRICOSTus, consul B. C. 435
army under the consuls. (Liv. ii. 8, 11; Dionys. with C. Julius Julus (Liv. iv. 21 ; Diod. xii. 49. )
v. 20, 22, 23. ) Triciptinus was consul a second Respecting the events of this year, see JULUS,
time in B. c. 504 with P. Valerius Publicola, in which No. 4. Virginius and Julius were again consuls
year the consuls carried on the war against the in the following year, according to Licinius Macer ;
Sabines with success. (Liv. ii. 16 ; Dionys. v. 40, but other authorities mentioned M. Manlius and
foll. )
Q. Sulpicius as consuls, and others again relate that
3. LUCRETIUS (TRICIPTINUS), consul in B. C. there were no consuls but consular tribunes this
507 with P. Valerius Publicola, according to Livy year. (Liv. iv. 23. )
(ii. 15); but in Dionysius (v. 21) and the Fasti 4. L. VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUs, consular tribune
M. Horatius Pulvillus is mentioned instead as the B. C. 389, the year after Rome had been taken by
colleague of Publicola. (PuLviLLUS, No. 1. ) the Gauls. (Liv. vi. 1. )
4. L. LUCRETIUS T. F. T. N. TRICIPTINUS, son 5. PROCULUS VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUS RUTILUS,
of No. 2, was consul in B. C. 462 with T. Veturius consul B. C. 486 with Sp. Cassius Viscellinus,
Geminus Cicurinus. He fell upon the Volscians, marched against the Aequi ; but as they would
when they were returning from an invasion of the not meet him in the field, he returned to Rome
Roman territory laden with booty, and nearly after laying waste their territory. He took an
annihilated the whole army. He obtained in con- active part in opposing the agrarian law of his
sequence the honour of a triumph. In the follow- colleague. (VISCELLINUS. ) (Liv. ï. 41 ; Dionys
ing year he exerted himself warmly to save viii. 68, ix. 51. )
Kaeso Quintius, who was brought to trial by the 6. T. VIRGINIUS T. F. T. N. TRICOSTUs Ru.
tribune Virginius. · (Liv. iii. 8, 10, 12; Dionys. ix. TILUS, consul B. C. 479 with K. Fabius Vibulanus,
69–71. ) Triciptinus is mentioned by Dionysius in which year the Fabia gens left Rome to carry
(xi. 15) as one of the distinguished senators who on the war alone against Veii. (Liv. ii. 48, 49
spoke in favour of the abolition of the decemvirate Dionys. ix. 14. ) This Virginius was augur, and
in B. C. 449.
died in 463 in the great pestilence which devas-
5. Hostos LUCRETIUS L. F. T. N. TRICIPTI- tated Rome in that year. (Liv. iji. 7. )
NUS, son of No. 4, consul in B. C. 429 with L. 7. A. VIRGINIUS T. F. T. N. TRICOSTUS RU-
Sergius Fidenas. (Liv, iv. 30. )
TILU8, brother of No. 6, was consul in B. C. 476
6. P. Lucretius Hosti F. TRICIPTINUS, son with Sp. Servilius Priscus Structus. (Liv. ii. 51 ;
of No. 4, consular tribune in B. C. 419, and a Dionys. ix. 25. )
second time in 417.
Cisalpine Gaul among the Roman citizens and the In Livy (l. c. ) the praenomen of Triarius is erro-
Latin allies. (Liv. xlii. 4. )
neously Caius.
3. CN. THEMELLIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 2. P. VALERIUS TRIARIUS, the son of the pre-
167. (Liv. xlv. 15. )
ceding, accused M. Aemilius Scaurus, in B. C. 54,
4. Cn. TREMELLIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. first of repetundae and next of ambitus. Scaurus
160, was condemned to pay a fine on account of was defended on both occasions by Cicero. (Ascon.
his having insulted the pontifex maximus M. Aemi- in Scaur. p. 19; Cie. pro Scaur. 1, 2, ad Att. iv.
lius Lepidus. (Liv. Epit. 47. )
16. § 8, iv. 17. & 2, ad Q. Fr. iii. 2. § 3). For
TREMULUS, Q. MA'RCIUS, a plebeian, details, see SCAURUS, p. 737, b.
was twice consul with the patrician P. Cornelius 3. C. Valerius TRIARIUS, perhaps a brother
Arvina, the first time in B. c. 306, and the second of No. 2, was a friend of Cicero, who introduces
time in B. c. 288. In his first consulship Tremulus him as one of the speakers in his dialogue De Fini-
carried on wars against the Hernici and Anagnini, bus (i. 5), and praises his oratory in his Brutus
whom he conquered with ease, and then marched (c. 76). His sister Valeria Paula divorced her
to the assistance of his colleague in Samnium. On husband in B. G 50, and married D. Brutus. (Cael.
Cicero Sport
that Trias
children.
ad Ath. xi.
TRIBO
according
articies on
supposed to
a strange
begins by
and an a:h
faith of the
the charact
from whom
atheist.
a cheat, an
Dot die, bu
flesh (Sui
the potes).
perceived :
of bearen
things.
He is i
powers, ar
those of nc
greeds of
every day
beling to
taken front
many year
baring
sui
cunning, a
a shade or
learning.
1
the quaest
The ot
Saidas to
whom he
be also ca
learned in
porary of
dressed to
given by
Fork is
safely affir
the anthor
econd art
Triboni
and masie
531 be wa
tomult, be
office until
tecorded a
lations of
the ten ec
forte his
of Vir
agentes de
quaestor,
compile tu
himself,
## p. 1173 (#1189) ##########################################
TRIBONIANUS.
1173
TRICIPTINUS.
ap. Cic. ad Fam. viii. 7. ) On the breaking out of the Theophilus, Craterus, Dorotheus and Anatolius
civil war Triarius espoused the cause of Pompey, were the most active among the commissioners. In
who appointed him and Laelius in B. c. 48 to the December A. D. 633 the Digest was promulgated as
command of the ships which were furnished by the law.
province of Asia. He was present at the battle of During the time that he was employed on the
Pharsalia, and it is said to have been by his advice Pandect, Tribonianus and the two professors, Theo-
that Pompey ordered his troops to stand still and philus and Dorotheus, were commissioned to com-
receive the charge of Caesar's soldiers, & mistake pile an Institutional work. Tribonian had at this
in the opinion of his great opponent. Triarius time the title of “ Vir magnificus, magister, et Ex-
perished in the civil wars, probably in Africa, for quaestor sacri palatii nostri” (Instit. Prooemium),
Cicero speaks in B. c. 45 of his death, and adds, and they took as their basis the Institutional work
that Triarius had left him the guardian of his of Gaius, and produced the four books of the Insti-
children. (Caes. B. C. iii. 5, 92 ; Cic. Brut. 76, tutions of Justinian, which were published in
ad Ali, xii. 28. § 3. )
November A. D. 533. The revised or second edition
TRIBONIA'NUS was a son of Macedonianuis, of the Codex was also the work of Triboninnus and
according to Suidas. There are in Suidas two four other jurists, and it was published in December
articles on Tribonianus, both of which have been A. D. 534. (Constitutio, Cordi, &c. )
supposed to refer to the same person. They are It is hardly possible to form any estimate of the
a strange medley of confusion. The first article services of Tribonianus as distinct from those of
begins by saying that Tribonianus was a Greek the other commissioners. He had the superintend-
and an atheist, and in all respects averse to the ence of the Digest, and may have taken the chief
faith of the Christians ; in fact the latter part of part in planning the work; and to his activity it
the character is an explanation of what the zealot was owing, that the large collection of juristical
from whom this fragment is taken meant by an writings was made, from which the compilers se-
atheist. He is further described as a flatterer and lected the materials for the Digest (Constitutio,
a cheat, and as persuading Justinian that he would Tanta, &c. ). He had a well-stocked library of the
not die, but would be translated to heaven in the old writers on law, As to the compilations made
flesh (Suidas, s. v. Tp6wviavós, ed. Gaisford, and by Tribonian and his associates see the article
the notes). The foolish compiler seems not to bave JUSTINIANUS.
perceived that a profession of atheism and a promise Gibbon (c. 44) has expanded the scanty and
of heaven to the emperor are hardly consistent scandalous notices of Procopius (Persica, i. 23, 24,
things.
and Anecdota, 13, 20) and Suidas after his peculiar
He is further said to have had great natural fashion. There is a life of Justinian and Tribonian
powers, and to have made acquirements inferior to by J. P. de Ludewig, entitled “ Vita Justiniani
those of no man of his age; but he was wonderfully Magni atque Theodorae nec non Triboniani, Hal.
greedy of money, and he sold justice for lucre ; | 1731. *
[G. L. )
every day he repealed some laws, and made others, TRIBU'NUS (Tp. boûvos), a very eminent
selling to each according to his wants. This is physician, a native of Palestine, and a man of
taken from Procopius (Persica, i. 24). He lived great piety and benevolence. He went to Persia,
many years in honour, and died a natural death, where he attended on the king, Cosra (or Chos-
having suffered no ill from any one, for he was roës) I. , and returned home laden with mag-
cunning, and pleasant in his manners, and he threw nificent presents, probably A. D. 531. When this
a shade over his avarice by the abundance of his king was concluding a treaty of peace with the
learning. This is the character which we have of emperor Justinian in the following year, he made
the quaestor of Justinian.
it a special request that Tribunus should be al-
The other article appears to be intended by lowed to stay with him for twelve months. This
Suidas to refer to another person of the same name, was agreed to, and when at the end of that time
whom he calls a native of Side in Pamphylia, but Tribunus was about to take leave of the Persian
he also calls him a lawyer or advocate, and a very court, the king told him to ask for any favour
learned man. He however makes him a contem- that he pleased. The noble-minded physician
porary of Justinian, for one of his works was ad-only begged for the liberation of some Roman
dressed to the emperor. The list of his works captives ; and the king released not only those
given by Suidas is a list of trifles; and no legal | whom he particularly named, but three thousand
work is enumerated among them. It may be others besides (Procop. De Bello Goth. iv. 10; Suid.
safely affirmed that Tribonian the jurist was not 8. v. Tp. 6oûvos). This anecdote will bring to the
the author of any of the works enumerated in this recollection of an English physician the very similar
second article of Suidas.
disinterestedness of Mr. Boughton at the court of
Tribonianus was successively quaestor, consul, the Great Mogul about the middle of the seven-
and master of the offices to Justinian. In A. D. teenth century, which was the origin of the power
331 he was disgraced in consequence of a popular of the East India Company in Bengal. [W. A. G. )
tumult, but he was soon restored, and remained in TRICCIANUS, DE'CIUS, a soldier of humble
office until his death in A. D. 545. His name is origin, who rose to the dignity of governor of
recorded among those who made the legal compi- Pannonia under Macrinus. He is apparently the
lations of Justinian. In A. D. 528 he was one of same person as the Triccianus, who at a subsequent
the ten commissioners appointed by Justinian to period was put to death by Elagabalus. (Dion Cass.
form his first codex: he had at that time the title Ixxviii. 15, lxxix. 4. )
(W. R. )
of “ Vir magnificus magisteria dignitate inter TRICIPTI'NUS, the name of an ancient patri.
agentes decoratus. " In A. D. 530 Tribonianus, then cian family of the Lucretia gens.
quaestor, was commissioned with sixteen others, to 1. Sp. LUCRETIUS TricIPTINUS, the father of
compile the Digest or Pandect; and Tribonianus Lucretia, whose rape by Sex. Tarquinius led to the
himself, and the four professors (antecessores) | dethronement of Tarquinius Superbus and the
4 p 3
.
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TRICIPTINUS.
TRIGEMINUS.
ll;
3
establishment of the republic. [Vol. III. p. 978, / writer informs us that Lucretius spoke against the
b. ) Triciptinus was a member of the senate under removal to Veii.
Tarquinius, and was appointed Praefectus Urbi by TRICOLO'NUS (Tperówvos), two mythical
the king, when the latter left the city to prosecute personages, one a son of Lycaon, and founder of
the war against Ardea.
After the dethronement Tricoloni in Arcadia (Paus viii. 3. § 1), and the
of the king, and before the appointment of the other one of the suitors of Hippodameia, who was
consuls, Triciptinus, in virtue of his office of Prae- conquered and killed by Oenomaus. (Paus. vi.
fectus Urbi, had the government of the city. He 21. § 7. )
(L. S. )
presided at the comitia, in which the first consuls TRICOSTUS, the name of an ancient family of
were elected, and for this purpose was probably the Virginia gens. Almost all the members of the
elected interrex by the patricians, as indeed is ex. Virginia gens belonged to this family, which be-
pressly stated by Dionysius (v. 11), and might be came so extensive that it was subdivided into
inferred from analogy.
other families bearing the names of CAELIOMONTA-
The two first consuls were L. Junius Brutus NUS, ESQUILINUS, and RUTILUS. The two former
and L. Tarquinius Collatinus, B. C. 509; and after are spoken of under their respective names, and it
the death of Brutus in battle, in the course of the therefore only remains to treat here of the Tricosti,
same year, Triciptinus was elected to supply his who had no additional name, and of the Tricosti
place ; but worn out by age, he died a few days Rutili.
after entering upon the office. (Liv. i. 58, 59, ii. 1. OPITER VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUs, consul B. C.
8 ; Dionys. iv. 76, 82, 84, v. 11, 19; Tac. Ann. vi. 502 with Sp. Cassius Viscellinus, carried on war
Cic. de Rep. ii. 31. )
against the Aurunci and took Pometia, in conse-
2. T. LUCRETIUS T. F. TRICIPTINUS, consul in quence of which he and his colleague obtained a
B. C. 508 with P. Valerius Publicola, in which triumph. (Liv. j. 17; Dionys. v. 49. )
year he fought against the Etruscans, who had 2. OPITER VIRGINIUS (Tricostus), consul
attacked Rome under Porsena, and he is said by B. C. 473 with L. Aemilius Mamercus, according
Dionysius to have been wounded in the battle. to Livy (ii. 54); but other authorities give Vopis-
Dionysius, however, places the invasion of Porsena cus Julius Julus in place of Virginius. (JULUS,
in the following year, and accordingly represents No. 3. )
Triciptinus as one of the generals of the Roman 3. L. VIRGINIUS TRICOSTus, consul B. C. 435
army under the consuls. (Liv. ii. 8, 11; Dionys. with C. Julius Julus (Liv. iv. 21 ; Diod. xii. 49. )
v. 20, 22, 23. ) Triciptinus was consul a second Respecting the events of this year, see JULUS,
time in B. c. 504 with P. Valerius Publicola, in which No. 4. Virginius and Julius were again consuls
year the consuls carried on the war against the in the following year, according to Licinius Macer ;
Sabines with success. (Liv. ii. 16 ; Dionys. v. 40, but other authorities mentioned M. Manlius and
foll. )
Q. Sulpicius as consuls, and others again relate that
3. LUCRETIUS (TRICIPTINUS), consul in B. C. there were no consuls but consular tribunes this
507 with P. Valerius Publicola, according to Livy year. (Liv. iv. 23. )
(ii. 15); but in Dionysius (v. 21) and the Fasti 4. L. VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUs, consular tribune
M. Horatius Pulvillus is mentioned instead as the B. C. 389, the year after Rome had been taken by
colleague of Publicola. (PuLviLLUS, No. 1. ) the Gauls. (Liv. vi. 1. )
4. L. LUCRETIUS T. F. T. N. TRICIPTINUS, son 5. PROCULUS VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUS RUTILUS,
of No. 2, was consul in B. C. 462 with T. Veturius consul B. C. 486 with Sp. Cassius Viscellinus,
Geminus Cicurinus. He fell upon the Volscians, marched against the Aequi ; but as they would
when they were returning from an invasion of the not meet him in the field, he returned to Rome
Roman territory laden with booty, and nearly after laying waste their territory. He took an
annihilated the whole army. He obtained in con- active part in opposing the agrarian law of his
sequence the honour of a triumph. In the follow- colleague. (VISCELLINUS. ) (Liv. ï. 41 ; Dionys
ing year he exerted himself warmly to save viii. 68, ix. 51. )
Kaeso Quintius, who was brought to trial by the 6. T. VIRGINIUS T. F. T. N. TRICOSTUs Ru.
tribune Virginius. · (Liv. iii. 8, 10, 12; Dionys. ix. TILUS, consul B. C. 479 with K. Fabius Vibulanus,
69–71. ) Triciptinus is mentioned by Dionysius in which year the Fabia gens left Rome to carry
(xi. 15) as one of the distinguished senators who on the war alone against Veii. (Liv. ii. 48, 49
spoke in favour of the abolition of the decemvirate Dionys. ix. 14. ) This Virginius was augur, and
in B. C. 449.
died in 463 in the great pestilence which devas-
5. Hostos LUCRETIUS L. F. T. N. TRICIPTI- tated Rome in that year. (Liv. iji. 7. )
NUS, son of No. 4, consul in B. C. 429 with L. 7. A. VIRGINIUS T. F. T. N. TRICOSTUS RU-
Sergius Fidenas. (Liv, iv. 30. )
TILU8, brother of No. 6, was consul in B. C. 476
6. P. Lucretius Hosti F. TRICIPTINUS, son with Sp. Servilius Priscus Structus. (Liv. ii. 51 ;
of No. 4, consular tribune in B. C. 419, and a Dionys. ix. 25. )
second time in 417.
