Festus, Marcius was surnamed Ancus because of his crooked arm (ancus signifying "bent" in Latin). According to Livy, Ancus's first act as king was to order...
Look up Ancus or ancus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ancus may refer to: Ancus (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae Ancus Marcius...
and religious king in his place, Numa's grandson, Ancus Marcius. Much like his grandfather, Ancus did little to expand the borders of Rome and only fought...
legendary third king of Rome. He succeeded Numa Pompilius and was succeeded by Ancus Marcius. Unlike his predecessor, Tullus was known as a warlike king who...
his courtesy. King Ancus Marcius noticed Tarquinius and, by his will, appointed Tarquinius guardian of his own sons. Although Ancus Marcius was the grandson...
Oscan inscriptions. Ancus is known from only two sources: Ancus Marcius, the fourth King of Rome, who was of Sabine ancestry, and Ancus Publicius, an early...
invariable and do not change their endings: regnāvit Ancus annōs quattuor et vīgintī (Livy) 'Ancus reigned for 24 years' However, the numbers 1, 2, 3,...
Ancus Marcius, Rome's fourth king, defeated the Latins of Politorium, and resettled them on the Aventine. The Roman geographer Strabo credits Ancus with...
tradition handed down seven kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius Priscus, Servius Tullius and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus...
itself. Ostia may have been Rome's first colonia. According to legend, Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, was the first to destroy Ficana, an ancient...
Roman prisons was the Mamertine Prison, established around 640 B.C. by Ancus Marcius. The Mamertine Prison was located within a sewer system beneath...
grandson was Ancus Marcius, the fourth King of Rome. Although the Roman monarchy was not strictly hereditary, tradition holds that the sons of Ancus Marcius...
According to tradition, the prison was constructed around 640–616 BC, by Ancus Marcius. It was originally created as a cistern for a spring in the floor...
Silvia Romulus and Remus Numa Pompilius Tullus Hostilius Servius Tullius Ancus Marcius Lucius Tarquinius Priscus Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Kings of Alba...
Silvia Romulus and Remus Numa Pompilius Tullus Hostilius Servius Tullius Ancus Marcius Lucius Tarquinius Priscus Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Kings of Alba...
the officials named Fetiales who were a sacerdotal collegium. After him Ancus Marcius had sacral norms from Numa's work transcribed and made public. He...
Tarquinius Priscus had been elected king on the death of the previous king, Ancus Marcius, whose two sons were too young to inherit or offer themselves for...
martyana. The subspecies are: D. e. epijarbas (south India, Sri Lanka) D. e. ancus Fruhstorfer, 1912 (northern India) D. e. amatius Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Assam...
religious institutions still known to the later Republic. Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Marcius instituted the fetial priests. The first "outsider" Etruscan king...
disagreed whether her cult was introduced to Rome by Servius Tullius or Ancus Marcius. The two earliest temples mentioned in Roman Calendars were outside...
reputation, roughly the same age as Romulus and Remus, during the reign of Ancus Marcius in the 7th century BCE. She was awarded to Hercules as a prize in...
engineered her husband's succession to the Roman kingdom on the death of Ancus Marcius. When the sons of Marcius subsequently arranged the elder Tarquin's...
Legendarily it came into conflict with the Romans during the reign of Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome; then again in the fifth and fourth centuries...
ancient Rome in the 7th century BC, during the reign of the Roman King Ancus Marcius. The town was the focus of the main part of the war when it was...
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