Ancus Marcius
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Ancus
in the texts
Numa
Grandson of Numa through his daughter, later king of Rome, who completed the wooden bridge over the Tiber.
However, it is said that the wooden bridge also was later than the time of Numa, and was completed by Ancus Marcius, the grandson of Numa by his daughter, when he was king.
This Ancus Marcius is said to have been only five years old when Numa died, not a speedy nor a sudden death, but wasting away gradually from old age and a mild disorder, as Piso writes.
But his son Marcius, the husband of Pompilia, remained at Rome, and begat Ancus Marcius, who succeeded Tullus Hostilius in the kingdom.
On the Commonwealth
Fourth king of Rome, grandson of Numa Pompilius, who expanded the city and founded a coastal colony
For he did not bring it down to the sea—which, with that band and those forces, was most easy for him—so as to advance into the territory of the Rutuli and the Aborigines, or himself to found a city at the mouth of the Tiber, in which place King Ancus many years later led out a colony;
"After him, Ancus Marcius, grandson of Numa Pompilius by a daughter, was made king by the people, and likewise carried a curiate law concerning his own command.
having been easily received into the citizenship, on account of his refinement and learning he was made so intimate with King Ancus that he was thought a partaker of all his counsels and almost a sharer of the kingdom.
Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Grandson of Numa and successor of Tullus Hostilius as king of Rome, an early member of the Marcii family.
One of them was Ancus Marcius, the grandson of Numa by his daughter, and the successor of Tullus Hostilius in the kingship.
De Spectaculis
Legendary fourth king of Rome, listed among founders of Roman games.
then Tullus Hostilius, then Ancus Marcius and the rest.