Tarquin
Tarquin the Proud, [Lat. Lu'cius Tarquin'ius
Sii'er'bus; Fr. Tarquin le Superhe, laVkaN' leh
sii'paiRb',] son of Tarquinius Priscus, and seventh King
of Rome. In 534 B.C. he succeeded Servius Tullius,
whom he had caused to be assassinated, and whose
daughter Tullia he had married. He put to death the
senators who had favoured the reforms of Servius...
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Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, also called Tarquin the Elder or Tarquin I, was the fifth King of Rome from 616 BC
to 579 BC. His wife was Tanaquil.
Early life -
According to Livy, Tarquinius Priscus came from the Etruscan city of Tarquinii. Livy claims that his original
Etruscan name was Lucumo, but since Lucumo (Etruscan Lauchme) is the Etruscan w...
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Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (535 B.C. – 496 B.C.) was the seventh King of Rome, reigning from 535 until the
Roman revolt in 509 B.C. which would lead to the establishment of the Roman Republic. He is more commonly
known by his cognomen Tarquinius Superbus (literally, Tarquin the Proud[1]) and was a member of the Etruscan
dynasty of Rome. The hist...
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（Tarcho). The name of a family in early Roman tradition to which the fifth and seventh kings of Rome belonged. The legend of the
Tarquins ran as follows: Demaratus, their ancestor, belonged to the noble family of the Bacchiadae at Corinth, and fled from his native
city when the power of his order was overthrown by Cypselus. He settled at Tarquini...
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