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    Festus, Marcius was surnamed Ancus because of his crooked arm (ancus signifying "bent" in Latin). According to Livy, Ancus's first act as king was to order...
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  • essential for shipbuilding, had been seized from the Etruscans of Veii by Ancus Martius. Since woodland was everywhere the province of Silvanus, there is no...
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    INCRESCEN AUDACIAE; IMPIETATI ET MALIS ARTIBUS, from Livy's life of Ancus Martius. INFAME SCELUS ... RI INFELICI SUSPE, a "paraphrase from the same work"...
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    the first four 'kings' (Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Martius) are almost certainly entirely apocryphal. Historians hypothesize that...
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    and religious king in his place, Numa's grandson, Ancus Marcius. Much like his grandfather, Ancus did little to expand the borders of Rome and only fought...
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  • Ræder was born in Göttingen on 21 April 1908, a daughter of Rudolf Ancus Martius and Dorothea Robertson.: p. 29  In 1940 she married Johan Georg A. Ræder...
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    Ancus Marcius, Rome's fourth king, defeated the Latins of Politorium, and resettled them on the Aventine. The Roman geographer Strabo credits Ancus with...
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    Inc. Auc. de Viribus Illustribus V 4 apud Aurelius Victor p. 29: "(Ancus Martius) ius fetiale...ab Aequicolis transtulit quod primus Ferter Rhesus excogitavisse";...
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  • Numa Marcius (redirect from Numa Martius)
    Marcius married Pompilia, daughter of Numa Pompilius, and was the father of Ancus Marcius. Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1:20 Plutarch, "The Life of Numa", 21. Plutarch...
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  • called ergastula. The first Roman prison was said to have been built by Ancus Marcius and enlarged by Servius Tullius, during the semilegendary period...
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    founder Romulus, eleven lines of the list are missing. Next in sequence are Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius Priscus, Servius Tullius, and finally Tarquin "the proud"...
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    According to tradition, the prison was constructed around 640–616 BC, by Ancus Marcius. It was originally created as a cistern for a spring in the floor...
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    Tatius, legendary King of the Sabines Numa Pompilius, legendary King of Rome Ancus Marcius, legendary King of Rome Quintus Sertorius, republican general Sextus...
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    they claimed descent from a legendary figure from the time of the kings. Ancus Publicius of Cora was said to have been one of the generals of the Latin...
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    Rehak, Paul (2006). Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the northern Campus Martius. University of Wisconsin Press. p 94. Clark, Anna. (2007). Divine Qualities:...
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    Tarquinius Priscus had been elected king on the death of the previous king, Ancus Marcius, whose two sons were too young to inherit or offer themselves for...
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    attain high station based solely on his merits. He fell into the retinue of Ancus Marcius, the fourth Roman king, becoming his trusted advisor. Since the...
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    including parts of the frieze, Roman Forum Temple of Hadrian – Campus Martius – a huge wall with 11 columns, now incorporated in a later building Temple...
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    lightning during the campaign in Cantabria. An old temple in the Campus Martius had long been dedicated to Iuppiter Fulgens. The original cult image installed...
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    grandson was Ancus Marcius, the fourth King of Rome. Although the Roman monarchy was not strictly hereditary, tradition holds that the sons of Ancus Marcius...
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    and piecemeal process extending from Servius' predecessors, former kings Ancus Marcius and Tarquinius Priscus, to his successor Tarquinius Superbus, into...
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    for his aunt Julia, Caesar also indirectly claimed to be descended from Ancus Marcius and the kings of Rome, and so from Mars. Moreover, when he was a...
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    not appear in the Fasti Triumphales. A. = Aulus Agrippa (not abbreviated) Ancus (not abbreviated) Ap. = Appius C. = Gaius Cn. = Gnaeus K. = Kaeso or Caeso...
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    Liber memorialis VIII. L. Adams Holland above p. 224ff.: conquests of Ancus Marcius; J. Gagé La chute des Tarquins et les debuts de la Republique romaine...
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    their own hair to make bowstrings during a siege of Rome. In another, king Ancus Marcius' wife and other Roman women lost their hair during an epidemic;...
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    religious institutions still known to the later Republic. Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Marcius instituted the fetial priests. The first "outsider" Etruscan king...
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