Opiter Verginius Tricostus served as consul of the early Roman Republic in 502 BC, with Spurius Cassius Vecellinus.
Together with his colleague Spurius Cassius Vecellinus, Verginius Tricostus fought against the Aurunci, and took Pometia.
[6] He is listed in an incomplete text by Festus as numbering among the nine patricians burned in 486 BC for conspiring with his former consular colleague Cassius.
Considering that this would have occurred during Opiter's son, Proculus, consulship, this narrative remains highly uncertain.
[7][8][9] The filiation of a number of consular men in the following generation suggests they were Opiter Verginius' sons.