The City of God · Character
King Tarquin
Last king of Rome, whose tyranny led to the establishment of the Republic.
minor
Also known as Tarquin, king Tarquin
First appearance: part i book i
King Tarquin shows up with force in XIX. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Father of Sextus Tarquinius; mentioned as the one who was banished along with his son.
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In XIX: Father of Sextus Tarquinius; mentioned as the one who was banished along with his son. Later, in Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome’s palmiest days.: Expelled king whose…
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- Other
Character groups
- Roman Founders and Tyrants
- Patriarchs and Pagan Figures
- Pagan Gods of Healing and War
- Diverse Historical and Biblical Figures
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- Breaking point
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- Closing
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- XIX
- Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome’s palmiest days.
- XII
- XV
- Of the first Roman consuls, the one of whom drove the other from the country, and shortly after perished at Rome by the hand of a wounded enemy, and so ended a career of unnatural murders
- Concerning Felicity, whom the Romans, who venerate many gods, for a long time did not worship with divine honour, though she alone would have sufficed instead of all.
- Of the falsity of the augury by which the strength and stability of the Roman empire was considered to be indicated
- Book V
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