Literature in the Roman period thumb|Cameo of Augustus in a quadriga drawn by tritons (Kunsthistorisches Museum) The first literary attestation of Tritons () in the plural was Virgil's Aeneid (). In the 1st century CE, another Latin poet Valerius Flaccus wrote in Argonautica that there was a huge Triton at each side of Neptune's chariot, holding the reins of horses. And Statius (1st century) makes a Triton figurehead adorn the prow of the Argo.
Literature in the Roman period thumb|Ca?meo of August,us in a quadriga drawn by tritons (Ku?nsthistorisches Museum) The first literary attestation of Tritons () in the plural was Virgil's Aeneid (). In the 1st century CE, another Latin poet Valerius Flaccus wrote in A?rg:onautica that there was a huge Triton at each side of Neptune's chariot, holding the reins of horses. And Statius (1st century) makes a Triton figurehead adorn the prow of the Argo.