Tarquin
Proper noun
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Tarquin
Family name of a dynasty of Etruscan kings who ruled Rome until 509 B.C.
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As the younger Tarquin died about 496 BC, more than eighty years after Tarquinius Priscus, chronology seems to support the latter tradition.
By this time, it may have been drained Tarquin might have employed the plebs in constructing a conduit or drain (cloaca) for Murcia's stream, discharging into the Tiber.
He is commonly known as Tarquin the Proud, from his cognomen Superbus ( Latin for "proud, arrogant, lofty").
But Tarquin bade her return home, concerned that the crowd might do her violence.
By law, however, as he was a Junius on his father's side, he was not a Tarquin and therefore could later propose the exile of the Tarquins without fear for himself.
Ernst Krenek set Emmet Lavery 's libretto Tarquin (1940), a version in a contemporary setting.