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Tarquinius

noun
1.
According to legend, the seventh and last Etruscan king of Rome who was expelled for his cruelty (reigned from 534 to 510 BC).  Synonyms: Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Tarquin, Tarquin the Proud, Tarquinius Superbus.






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... legend, Tarquinius Superbus, or Tarquin the Proud, the last of the early kings of Rome, was driven out of the city, partly on account of his own tyranny, and partly because of the misdeeds of his son Sextus Tarquin. The immediate cause of the expulsion of the Tarquins was "the deed of shame," committed by ...
— Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School • O. J. Stevenson

... [Footnote 32: Tarquinius Superbus, seventh and last King of Rome, occupied the throne for twenty-five years, and as a consequence of the rape of Lucretia by his son Sextus was banished about ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various

... king, who reigned twenty-four years; that of the Tarquins, an Etrurian family of Greek extraction, which came from Corinth, the cradle of Grecian art, celebrated as the birth-place of painting and for its works of pottery and bronze. Tarquinius Priscus constructed the Cloaca Maxima, that vast sewer which drained the Forum and Velabrum, and which is regarded by Niebuhr as one of the most stupendous monuments of antiquity. It was composed of three semicircular arches inclosing one another, the innermost of which ...
— The Old Roman World • John Lord



Words linked to "Tarquinius" :   Tarquinius Superbus, Rex, Tarquin the Proud, male monarch, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, king, Tarquin



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