Tarquin (7th King of Rome)
Latin in full Lucius Tarquinius Superbus traditionally the seventh and last king of Rome, accepted by some scholars as a historical figure. His reign is dated from 534 to 509.
Tarquinius Superbus was, in legend, the son or grandson of Tarquinius Priscus and son-in-law of Servius Tullius. Tarquin supposedly murdered Tullius and established an absolute despotism—hence his name Superbus, meaning “the proud.” In the reign of terror that followed, many senators were put to death. Eventually a group of senators led by Lucius Junius Brutus raised a revolt, the immediate cause of which was the rape of a noblewoman, Lucretia, by Tarquin's son Sextus. The Tarquin family was expelled from Rome, and the monarchy at Rome was abolished (traditionally 509 BC).
The text of a treaty between a Tarquin—probably Tarquinius Superbus—and the city of Gabii, 12 miles (19 km) from Rome, did actually exist and was preserved in the Temple of Semo Sancus in Rome until the 1st century AD.
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