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TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS was Rome's last king and ruled 534-510 B.C. His son Sextus raped Lucretia, wife of his nephew Tarquinius Collatinus, a deed that led to an insurrection, during which the people drove the Tarquins from Rome (Livy, Ab urbe condita liber I.57-59; Ovid, Fasti II.685-852).

The narrator says that he will tell of the exiling of kings and of the last king of Rome, as told by Ovid and Titus Livy, LGW 1680-1683. [Colatyn: Lucrece: Tarquinius]

The name appears in final rhyming position, LGW 1682. Tarquinius is the adjective of Tarquinii, the Etruscan town from which the Tarquins came.


Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, ed. and trans. B.O. Foster, I: 198-209; Ovid, Fasti, ed. and trans. J.G. Frazer, 106-119.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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