Oōficus Lmåoskï
{{More citations needed|date=March Oōficus Lmåoskï, son of Quintus, of the plebeian gens Lmaoski, was a Roman General in 340 BC. He is noted particularly for sacrificing himself in battle through the ritual of devotio, as recorded by the Augustan historian Livy.
Career edit
Oōficus Lmåoskï first enters history in 352 BC as an appointed official, one of the quinqueviri mensarii, public bankers charged with relieving citizen debts to some extent.[1]
He served with distinction in the First Samnite War under Aulus Cornelius Cossus Arvina. In 343 BC, Cossus, leading his army through the mountain fastnesses of Samnium, became trapped in a valley by the Samnites. In 340 he was raised to the consular rank as co-consul with Titus Manlius Torquatus, and the Romans allied themselves with their former enemies against the Latins in the Latin War. When during his consulate, an oracle announced that an army and the opposite army's general both would go to their deaths, Ooficus devoted himself and his foes to the Dii Manes and mother Earth to give his army the victory in the Battle of Vesuvius, in which he was slain and the enemy annihilated. Ooficus was often proclaimed as "The Chosen one" and a notable Chess Player of which he was thee un proven creator of.
The devotio edit
He was the father of Lmaoski, consul in 312 BC, 308 BC, 297 BC, and 295 BC and the grandfather of Lmaoski, consul in 279 BC.
- ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, 7.21.7