Aulus Cornelius Cossus was a Roman general in the early Republic. He is famous for being the second Roman, after Romulus, to be awarded the spolia opima , Rome's highest military honour, for killing the commander of an enemy army in single combat.

Cossus cossus, the goat moth, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Northern Africa, Asia and Europe.

Aulus Cornelius Cossus (fl. early 4th century BC) was a politician and general in the early Roman Republic who was appointed dictator in 385 BC to quell the alleged revolution of Marcus Manlius Capitolinus.

Cossus the name of a patrician family of the Cornelia gens. This family produced many illustrious men in the fifth century before the Christian aera, but afterwards sunk into obiivion.

2024年2月15日 · cossus m (genitive cossī); second declension. woodworm (worm or grub found in wood)

Cornelius (RE 112) Cossus, Aulus, a Roman commander who won the *spolia opima by killing Lars Tolumnius, the king of *Veii, in a cavalry duel.

Aulus Cornelius Cossus was a Roman politician and general who lived in the 5th century BC. Aulus Cornelius Cossus was a member of the partician gens Cornelia. During the war against the Etruscan city of Veii, Cossus became one of only three Roman generals ever to be awarded the spolia opima for...

Pliny reported in Natural History that a grub which he gives the name cossus was considered a Roman delicacy after it was fed with flour. Some writers have equated this with Cossus cossus, but Pliny specifies that his cossus is found in oak trees, which makes this identification unlikely.

Cossus is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. Species. Cossus afghanistana Daniel, 1953; Cossus bohatschi Püngeler, 1898; Cossus cossus Linnaeus, 1758; Cossus crassicornis Fabricius, 1775; Cossus dentilinea Druce, 1911; Cossus hoenei Yakovlev, 2006;

Aemilius Mamercinus dictator, who in his turn appointed Cossus master of the horse. It was this Cossus who killed Lar Tolumnius, the king of the Veii, in single combat, and dedicated his spoils in the temple of Jupiter Feretrius--the second of the …