Titus Larcius Flavus

Titus Larcius (or Lartius , Largius ) Flavus (or Rufus ) is a Roman statesman which was the first Magistrat invested dictatorship in 501 or 498 av. J. - C.

Titus Larcius is member of an Etruscan family established with Rome. His/her brother Spurius Larcius Rufus, Consul in 506 av. J. - C. is associated with Horatius Coclès in the heroic episode of the defense of the Pont Sublicius, then with Publius Valerius Publicola at the time of a victorious escamourche against the Etruscan S making the blockade of Rome.

Consul with Postumius Cominius Auruncus in 501 av. J. - C., it is named dictator to avoid the threat of war against the Latin and thirty people, excited by Octavius Mamilius, had leagued against Rome to restore Tarquin. Named dictator, it adjoindraait a Maître of cavalry in the person of Spurius Cassius Vecellinus, tradition which will perdurera thereafter at all the Roman dictators.

According to Denys d' Halicarnasse, after having demolishes Latin, it gives his Magistrat RUE before the term without to have killed, have banished or have used of severity against any Roman citizen, becoming a model for its successors until Sylla. It with the load of the seat of Corioles in the war against the Volsques in 493 av. J. - C.

He is elected once again Consul with Quintus Cloelius Siculus in 498 av. J. - C. It is under its magister that construction begins from the temple of Saturn.

Little before famous the Insurrection Mount Crowned in 494 av. J. - C., the Roman Sénat must face the dissatisfaction with the people, which impoverish wars in wars. The Consul S need to enlist many soldiers to continue the war vis-a-vis the Volsques and with the Èques. He proposes to prohibit during these continual wars to seize the goods of a debtor, being thus opposed to Appius Claudius Sabinus which wants nothing to hear and which the laws are applied, and it is an intermediate proposal which is selected: the soldiers are protected from their creditors as long as they are with the army, thus very an large army is brought together. But the appeasing is of short duration.

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Titus Lartius appears in the tragedy Coriolan of Shakespeare.

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