Gaius Aquillius Tuscus

Gaius Aquillius Tuscus was consul of the Roman Republic from the gens Aquillia in 487 BC together with Titus Sicinius Sabinus. Aquillius led the war against the Hernici. Not many details are known, but Dionysius of Halicarnassus records that he was awarded an ovation, a lesser form of triumph for his victory.[2]

Gaius Aquillius Tuscus
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office [1] 1 September 487 BC – 29 August 486 BC Serving with Titus Sicinius Sabinus
Preceded by	Spurius Nautius Rutilus, Sextus Furius Medullinus (consul 488 BC)
Succeeded by	Spurius Cassius Viscellinus, Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus
Personal details
Born	Unknown Ancient Rome
Died	Unknown Ancient Rome

C. Ampolo has argued that Aquillius was of Etruscan origin, basing his argument in part on three wine pitchers of Etruscan origin, all bearing the name Avile Acvilnas (Latin, "Aulus Aquillius"). He has described the consul as an example of the horizontal social mobility that was common in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.[3]

References

1. Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
2. T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952, 1986), vol. 1, pp. 19–20.
3. Ampolo, "Gli Aquilii del V. Secolo a.C. e il Problema di Fasti Consolari piu antichi nell'Anno 487 BC", PdP, 30 (1975), pp. 410-6; cited in Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), p. 164

Ancient sources

• Livy, Roman History 2.40
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, viii. 64, 65, 67

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Tuscus, C. Aquillius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.