Ancus Marcius

American  

[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

Again, Tullus Hostilius, the successor of Numa, was commonly said to have been killed by lightning, but many held that he was murdered at the instigation of Ancus Marcius, who reigned after him.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

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 Tullus Hostilius.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Ancus Marcius, 4th king of Rome, grandson of Numa, extended the city and founded Ostia.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

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