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
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 Sir James George Frazer
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 Aubrey Stewart
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 Sir William Smith
The prison at Rome was built by Ancus Marcius, and enlarged by Servius Tullius, from whom this part of it had its name; Varro de L. L., iv.
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by John Selby Watson
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