Opiter Verginius Tricostus (consul 502 BC)

Opiter Verginius Tricostus († probably 486 BC) was with Spurius Cassius Vecillinus in the year 502 BC by the legendary tradition Consul of the early Roman Republic. During the war against the Ausonians he should have taken the city Pometia what was given to him the honor of triumphal procession. Another tradition makes him take the Latin city cameria.

Well 486 BC, said to have been Verginius military tribune in the war against the Volscians. After his death in battle, his body was burned along with those of eight other tribunes in Rome.