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
Ancus Marcius was the grandson of King Numa Pompilius by his daughter.
From Roman History, Books I-III by Livius, Titus
"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
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
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