Tricostus
the name of an ancient family of the Virginia gens. Almost all the members of the Virginia gens belonged to this family, which became so extensive that it was subdivided into other families bearing the names of CAELIOMONTANUS, ESQUILINUS, and RUTILUS. The two former are spoken of under their respective names, and it therefore only remains to treat here of the Tricosti, who had no additional name, and of the Tricosti Rutili.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.