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| | Lucius Tarquinius Priscus - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | The legend of Tarquinius Priscus is in the main a reproduction of those of Romulus and Tullus Hostilius. |
 | | His Corinthian descent, invented by the Greeks to establish a close connexion with Rome, is impossible for chronological reasons; further, according to the genuine Roman tradition, the Tarquinii were of Etruscan, not Greek, origin. |
 | | There seems to have been originally only one Tarquinius; later, when a connected story of the legendary period was constructed, two (distinguished as the "Elder" and the "Proud") were introduced, separated by the reign of Servius Tullius, and the name of both was connected with the same events. |
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