Titus Herminius Aquilinus

Titus Herminius Aquilinus was according to the legendary Roman tradition in the year 506 BC, together with Spurius Larcius Roman consul. His cognomen Aquilinus is mentioned only in the fasti consulares. He is next to Lar Herminius, the consul of the year 448 BC, the only historical representatives of the gene Herminia.

In the fight against Lars Porsena is ancient historiography Herminius as companions next to his counterparts Larcius and the commander Horatius Cocles, with which he defended the leading across the Tiber to Rome pile bridge ( pons Sublicius ). Also report Livy and Dionysius that Herminius and Larcius participated in a battle against the Etruscans. However, over the time of the fight, the ancient historians are not unanimous. Dionysius writes them to also cover the purchase of grain stores from the Pontine plain, of which Livy, however, knows nothing. Both Livy and Dionysius mention Herminius as legate at the head of a cavalry squadron. He is said to have killed the Latin commander Octavius ​​Mamilius in the Battle of Lake Regillus 499 BC and to have been mortally wounded himself, as he took the underdog armor. None of this information can be regarded as historic.

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This article was created after the Pauly - Wissowa of 1899 and is, therefore, the state of research this time.