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

He took the name of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and gained the favor both of Ancus Marcius and the people.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

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

From Roman History, Books I-III by Livius, Titus

In the middle of the second century before Christ, this Caius Julius, being otherwise unknown to history, married a lady named Marcia, supposed to be descended from Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

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