Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, Roman patrician and statesman, consul 503 B.C. On the occasion of the first secession of the people to the Sacred Mount, Agrippa, who was known to be a man of moderate views, was one of the commissioners empowered by the senate to treat with the seceders. On this occasion he recited the well-known fable of the belly and the members.
Livy ii. 16, 32, 33; Dion. Halic. v. 44-47; vi. 49-88, 96; Val. Max. iv. 4, 2.
