person
Lars Tolumnius
also: Lars Tolumnius, king of the Veientes, rex Veientium
King of the Etruscan city of Veii who put to death four Roman envoys at Fidenae in the fifth century BC. Cicero cites the statues later erected to those envoys as a precedent for honouring Servius Sulpicius.
Reading notes
- Ninth Philippic §4 Lars Tolumnius, king of the Veientes
King of the Etruscan city of Veii who put four Roman envoys to death at Fidenae in the fifth century BC; their statues stood on the Rostra. Cicero cites them as precedent for honouring an envoy who died without being killed by enemy violence.