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.

---

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

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