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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His kings were either organizers, like Numa and Ancus Marcius, or warriors, like Romulus and Tullus Hostilius; they either made laws, like Servius, or they enforced them with the despotism of Tarquinius Superbus.

From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Gilman, Arthur

Again an interregnum followed, and again a king was chosen, this time Ancus Marcius, a Sabine, grandson of the good Numa, a man who strove to emulate the virtues of his ancestor.

From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Gilman, Arthur

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 Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius

"You never did see Ancus Marcius, that's all brag," cried a voice that sounded full of irritation and even nervous exhaustion.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor