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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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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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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the first four 'kings' (Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Martius) are almost certainly entirely apocryphal. Historians hypothesize that...
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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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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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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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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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