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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An ancient city of central Italy northwest of Rome. Head of the Etruscan League, it was defeated by Roman forces in the fourth century BC and lost its independence in the third century. The modern village of Tarquinia has a museum displaying notable Etruscan antiquities.

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  • Tarquinii had been too much habituated to sovereignty; Priscus first commenced; that Servius Tullus reigned next; that though an interval thus intervened, that Tarquinius Superbus, not losing sight of the kingdom as the property of another, had reclaimed it by crime and violence, as the hereditary right of his family.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • It is not necessary for you, as for your father, (coming here) from Corinth or Tarquinii, to strive for foreign thrones.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • The greater share of their anxiety afterwards inclined to the Etrurian war; after it was ascertained, from a letter of the consul Sulpicius, to whom the province of Tarquinii had fallen, that the land around the Roman Salinæ had been depopulated, and that part of the plunder had been carried away into the country of the people of Cære, and that the young men of that people were certainly among the depredators.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • In the reign of Ancus, Lucumo, a rich and enterprising man, came to settle at Rome, prompted chiefly by the desire and hope of obtaining great preferment there, which he had no means of attaining at Tarquinii

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • And now Servius began to strengthen his power, not more by public [53] than by private measures; and lest the feelings of the children of Tarquin might be the same towards himself as those of the children of Ancus had been towards Tarquin, he unites his two daughters in marriage to the young princes, the Tarquinii, Lucius and Aruns.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • She easily persuades him, as being ambitious of honours, and one to whom Tarquinii was his country only on the mother's side.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • The chief whereof was that of leaving behind him the temple of Jupiter on the Tarpeian mount, as a monument of his name and reign; [since posterity would remember] that of two Tarquinii, both kings, the father had vowed, the son completed it.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • Demaratus, a Corinthian, who, flying his country for sedition, had happened to settle at Tarquinii, and having married a wife there, had two sons by her.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • Tarquinii rather as a subject of sport than as a companion, is said to have brought with him as an offering to Apollo a golden rod, enclosed in

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • As the Etrurians despised Lucumo, because sprung from a foreign exile, she could not bear the affront, and regardless of the innate love of her native country, provided she might see her husband advanced to honours, she formed the determination to leave Tarquinii.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

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