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See also:LARCIUS (less accurately LARTIUS), See also:TITUS , probably surnamed FL.avus a member of an See also:Etruscan See also:family (cf. Lars Tolumnius, Lars See also:Porsena) See also:early settled in See also:Rome. When See also:consul in 501 B.C. he was chosen See also:dictator (the See also:title and See also:office being then introduced for the first See also:time) to command against the See also:thirty Latin cities, which had sworn to reinstate Tarquin in Rome. Other authorities put the See also:appointment three years later, when the plebeians refused to serve against the Latins until they had been released from the See also:burden of their debts. He opposed harsh See also:measures against the Latins, and also interested himself in the improvement of the See also:lot of the plebeians. His See also:brother, Spurius, is associated with Horatius Cocles in the See also:defence of the Sublician See also:bridge against the Etruscans. See See also:Livy ii. io, 18, 21, 29; See also:Dion. Halic. v. 50-77, vi. 37; See also:Cicero, De Re Publica, ii. 32. End of Article: LARCIUS (less accurately LARTIUS), TITUSAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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