Tarquin
historical figure · 6 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Tarquin the Proud · Tarquinius · a Tarquin · our King Tarquin
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2 expressionsTarquin the Proud1 mention
Stoic Paradoxes (Latin)
I pass over the rest, for they are all equal among themselves, except for Tarquin the Proud.
Tarquinius“Tarquin”1 mention
On the Commonwealth (Latin)
but you see that, through the injustice of one man, that whole kind of commonwealth fell.
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Tusculan Disputations
Exiled Roman king who waged war to regain his throne and died in distress at Cumae.
And what was more shameless than Tarquin, who waged war with those who had not borne his pride?
Damaratus, indeed, the father of our King Tarquin, because he could not endure the tyrant Cypselus, fled from Corinth to Tarquinii, and there established his fortunes and begot children.
On Moral Ends
Legendary Roman king used as a negative contrast to the wise man's true kingship
For he will more rightly be called a king than Tarquin, who could rule neither himself nor his own;
On the Commonwealth
The last king of Rome, whose tyranny caused the abolition of the Roman monarchy.
but you see that, through the injustice of one man, that whole kind of commonwealth fell.
Do you not see that, through the want of measure and the pride of one man, Tarquinius, the name of king came into hatred with this people?
Stoic Paradoxes
The last king of Rome, excepted from praise given to the other virtuous kings.
I pass over the rest, for they are all equal among themselves, except for Tarquin the Proud.
The Rights of War and Peace
Exiled Roman king whose ambassadors were implicated in conspiracy.
Thus the Roman Consuls seized the ambassadors of Tarquin, previously taking care to secure their papers, to prevent the evidence, which they might afford, from being destroyed.
On this subject the two eminent historians, Livy and Sallust, may be quoted as authorities, the former of whom, in mentioning the ambassadors of Tarquin, who had been guilty of fomenting treasonable conspiracies at Rome, says, “that although they deserved to be treated as enemies for their guilty conduct, yet the privilege, which they derived from the law of nations, prevailed over every other consideration.
On Benefits
Reference to the Roman kings of the Tarquin line, invoked to argue that killing one aspiring tyrant does not prevent another from arising.
And how great a forgetfulness of the nature of things or of his own city possessed him, who believed that, when one man was slain, there would not be another to want the same thing, although a Tarquin had been found after so many kings had been cut off by sword and lightning!