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Ancus Marcius

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[ang-kuhs mahr-shee-uhs, -shuhs] / ˈæŋ kəs ˈmɑr ʃi əs, -ʃəs /

noun

Roman Legend.
  1. a king of Rome, during whose reign the first bridge across the Tiber was constructed.


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It has gone there since 600 B.C., when King Ancus Marcius built an aqueduct.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ancus Marcius was the grandson of king Numa Pompilius by his daughter.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

Ancus Marcius was the grandson of King Numa Pompilius by his daughter.

From Roman History, Books I-III by Titus Livius

For the Marcii Reges 18, her mother's family, deduce their pedigree from Ancus Marcius, and the Julii, her father's, from Venus; of which stock we are a branch.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The patrician house of the Marcii in Rome produced many men of distinction, and among the rest, Ancus Marcius, grandson to Numa by his daughter, and king after Tulus Hostillus.

From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by John S. (John Stuart) White

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