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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Roman Kingdom (section Ancus Marcius)
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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the first four 'kings' (Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Martius) are almost certainly entirely apocryphal. Historians hypothesize that...
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Gudrun Dorothea Ræder (redirect from Gudrun Dorothea Martius)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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and piecemeal process extending from Servius' predecessors, former kings Ancus Marcius and Tarquinius Priscus, to his successor Tarquinius Superbus, into...
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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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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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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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lightning during the campaign in Cantabria. An old temple in the Campus Martius had long been dedicated to Iuppiter Fulgens ("Lightning Jupiter"). The...
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