Ancus Marcius
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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
His son Marcius, who married Pompilia, remained in Rome, and became the father of Ancus Marcius, who was king after Tullus Hostilius, and who was only five years old when Numa died.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
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 White, John S. (John Stuart)
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