Titus Lartius Flavius

, a consul who appeased a sedition raised by the poorer citizens, and was the first dictator ever chosen at Rome, B.C. 498. He made Spurius Ca ius his master of horse. Livy , bk. 2 , ch. 18 .――Spurius, one of the three Romans who alone withstood the fury of Porsenna’s army at the head of a bridge, while the communication was cutting down behind them. His companions were Cocles and Her mini us. See: Cocles . Livy , bk. 2 , chs. 10 & 18.— Dionysius of Halicarna us. — Valerius Maximus , bk. 3 , ch. 2 .――The name of Lartius has been common to many Romans.