Definitions

1. Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome, but doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion. (Web site)
2. Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome and trained by the last haruspex in the forgotten arts of divination.
3. Tarquinius was the 7th and final king of Rome (and we can tell why).
4. Tarquinius, the Etrucscan haruspex, is under increasing pressure by the Parthian commander Pacorus to read the future and help Parthia smash all opposition. (Web site)
5. Tarquinius was the husband of the Etruscan princess Tanaquil, who is described as a wise reader of omens. (Web site)

Future

1. Drury, Tarquinius Superbus and his wife Tullia, in my perspective were a very important building block for the future of Rome.

Temple

1. The temple was started by Rome's last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and was considered one of the largest and the most beautiful temples in the city.
2. The temple was started by Rome's fifth king, Tarquinius Priscus, and was considered one of the largest and the most beautiful temples in the city.

Consequence

1. In consequence of this "tragic crime" and his overweening arrogance as king, Tarquinius was removed.

Incident

1. The incident kindled the flames of dissatisfaction over the tyrannical methods of the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. (Web site)

State

1. Tarquinius also made some changes in the constitution of the state. (Web site)

Kingdom

1. After him Lucius Tarquinius Superbus seized the kingdom, without the authorization of either Fathers or People.

Gates

1. Against Tarquinius the gates were closed and exile was pronounced. (Web site)

Assistance

1. Tarquinius Superbus had no other state to which he could apply for assistance.

Orders

1. So, having been granted the administration of public affairs, he managed them for the most part according to orders supposed to emanate from Tarquinius. (Web site)

Peace

1. Although the wars of Tarquinius were of great celebrity, the important works which he executed in peace have made his name still more famous. (Web site)

Hands

1. He feigned idiocy to escape death at the hands of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (see under Tarquin).

Sinful

1. This certainly motivated Tarquinius and he and his wife soon became bloodthirsty, and exceedingly more sinful.

Attius

1. Attius did this immediately, and Tarquinius became a believer. (Web site)

Sextus

1. And at the Forum, Brutus spoke and described the violence of Sextus Tarquinius and the death of Lucretia. (Web site)
2. Sextus Tarquinius, son of the king started to like her however. (Web site)
3. His grandfather, called, like himself, Appius Claudius, had left a name as much detested as that Sextus Tarquinius. (Web site)

Son Lucius

1. While his son Lucius would later become known as Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. (Web site)

Navius

1. It was reported that Navius was subsequently put to death by Tarquinius. (Web site)

Overthrowers

1. Romulus was clearly first phase, and Numa Pompilius first or second phase, with Tarquinius Superbus and his overthrowers being second or third phase.

Original Sibylline Books

1. It was she who supposedly sold to Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome, the original Sibylline books (q.v.). (Web site)

Signia

1. In order to secure his Volscian conquests, Tarquinius founded the colonies of Signia and Circeii. (Web site)

Latin Town

1. Tarquinius took the Latin town of Apiolae by storm and took great booty from there back to Rome.

Certain Lucius Tarquinius

1. On the following day, a certain Lucius Tarquinius was brought before the senate, who was said to have been arrested as he was setting out to join Catiline. (Web site)

Son Sextus Tarquinius

1. The romantic reason traditionally given for the deposition of Tarquin was the rape of Lucretia (see Lucrece) by his son Sextus Tarquinius.

Nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus

1. She was the beautiful wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus.

Seven Kings

1. Apparently, Rome was ruled by seven kings from 753 BCE until 509 BCE, when Tarquinius Superbus was defeated in a popular rebellion. (Web site)

Aruns

1. A bloody battle was fought, in which Brutus and Aruns, the son of Tarquinius, slew each other. (Web site)

Own Daughter Tullia

1. His death is parricide, the worst of all crimes, perpetrated by his own daughter Tullia and his murderous son-in-law, Tarquinius.

Tarquinii

1. Tarquinius Priscus came from the Etruscan city of Tarquinii and was actually named Lucumo.

Tullius

1. Then did Tullius reveal the death of Tarquinius and openly take possession of the kingdom. (Web site)

Servius

1. Servius ruled for 44 years before he was assassinated by his own daughter Tullia and his son-in-law, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. (Web site)

Etruria

1. Sextus Tarquinius had to quit Rome to take refuge in Etruria.
2. Tarquinius, with his two sons, Titus and Aruns, took refuge at Caere in Etruria. (Web site)
3. It was Tarquinius Priscus, if we may believe Livy, who built the first Circus Maximus, and imported race horses and pugilists from Etruria for Roman games.

Etruscan Birth

1. The reign of Tarquinius Priscus Tarquinius Priscus was not only Rome’s fifth king but also the first of Etruscan birth (though Corinthian ancestry).

Lucius Tarquinius

1. Lucius Junius Brutus feigned idiocy for many years while he secretly prepared to depose Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the last King of Rome. (Web site)
2. The King of Rome was Lucius Tarquinius Superbus and he ruled with terror and he was prideful and for that he was nicknamed Superbus – the Proud. (Web site)
3. He was killed by Lucius Tarquinius, son of Priscus, on the advice of his own daughter Tullia, after reigning 44 years.

Lucius Tarquinius Priscus

1. Tanaqil was the wife of Tarquin the Great (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, 5th king of Rome), from the Etruscan city of Tarquinii. (Web site)
2. Next was Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, from 616 to 579 BC. During his reign, many conquered cities turned Roman, such as Corniculum and Firulea. (Web site)

Terrorism

1. Unlike any other King before him, Tarquinius used violence, murder, and terrorism to maintain control over Rome.

Tradition

1. According to tradition it may have been initially constructed around 600 BC under the orders of the king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. (Web site)
2. Early roman history (tradition) tells of a series of seven kings, and the last, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, was a tyrannical rex. (Web site)
3. According to tradition, she was the beautiful and virtuous wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus.

House

1. Carrying with them these hopes and thoughts, they entered the city, and having purchased a house there, they gave out the name of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus.
2. The following morning, Lucia and Bianca are glad to discover that Tarquinius has already left the house. (Web site)
3. Sextus Tarquinius returned to the house of Conlatinus, with one of his companions.

Account

1. Tarquinius Priscus was son of Demaratus of Corinth, who had left his country on account of political troubles.

Scene

1. Scene 1: Set in an army camp outside the gate of Rome, Collatinus, Junius and Tarquinius are drinking heavily together during the warm night.
2. When Tarquinius appears in the curia (= senate house) with an armed bodyguard, Tullia burst on the scene and hails him as king. (Web site)

Friend

1. So wisely did Tarquinius behave that the king soon treated him as a friend. (Web site)

Love

1. Then Tarquinius began to declare his love, to plead, to mingle threats witll prayers, to bring every resource to bear upon her woman's heart. (Web site)
2. Sextus Tarquinius declared his love for her, begging and threatening her alternately, and attacked her soul in every way.

Force

1. There an evil desire of violating Lucretia by force seized Sextus Tarquinius; both her beauty, and her proved chastity urged him on. (Web site)

Jupiter

1. Then, when peace was at length proclaimed, Tarquinius remembered the vow he had made to Jupiter, and began to build a temple on the Capitoline hill. (Web site)

Elder

1. Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (also called Tarquin the Elder or Tarquin I) was the legendary fifth King of Rome, said to have reigned from 616 BC to 579 BC.

Ancestors

1. And that Tarquinius, whom our ancestors expelled, was not either considered or called cruel or impious, but only The Proud. (Web site)

Battle

1. Among the inscriptions is one "Macstarna" and the Vibenna brothers who fought against Tarquinius Priscus in battle. (Web site)

Story

1. The story of the acquisition of the Sibylline Books by Tarquinius is one of the famous mythic elements of Roman history. (Web site)

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1. Tarquin
2. Lucretia
3. Last King
4. Settlements > Cities > Capitals > Rome
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